Solidity, create contract from contract

Question

Based on documentation it should be possible to create new contract from contract

contractAddress = new OwnedToken(name);

When I invoke this method from contract, the address I receive seems to be normal address and not contract.

Is this even possible (I remember I read somewhere that only normal accounts can send contract creating transactions)?

Answer 1

Is this even possible (I remember I read somewhere that only normal accounts can send contract creating transactions)?

This is definitely possible.

When I invoke this method from contract, the address I receive seems to be normal address and not contract.

I'm not sure which address you are talking about. This kind of design works well:

contract Factory {
    address[] newContracts;

    function createContract (bytes32 name) {
        address newContract = new Contract(name);
        newContracts.push(newContract);
    } 
}

contract Contract {
    bytes32 public Name;

    function Contract (bytes32 name) {
        Name = name;
    }
}

In the array newContracts, you will have the addresses of the Contracts created by the factory.

Then if you want to call the Name from the first Contract created in the Factory contract, you should use :

con.Name();

after having defined

Contract con = Contract(newContracts[0]);

Answer 2

I don't have enough rep to comment on Hcharlanes's answer but since I wasted an hour on it and lots of other people are using his sample, the line

Names[i] = con.Name();

is a bug. You can't assign off the end of a dynamic array. This has to be

Names.push(con.Name());

to not crash, but of course that code doesn't make any sense for any real purpose. You'd want to push the name onto that array immediately when creating the contract. Otherwise the sample is great! Hope this helps!