Deploy contract with Ether

Question

I need to deploy a contract within Solidity while also sending Ether to it.

To deploy a contract I do

contract NewContract {
  constructor() public payable {
    // I need to receive Ether here
  }  
}

contract Deployer {
  function deploy() {
    address nc = new NewContract();
  }
}

How can I also send some Ether while deploying? In the same transaction?

Answer 1

There are certainly cases where you want to feed contract ether in constructor only. In that case you can use .value to send some ether while constructing the contract.

contract A {
    function deployB() public payable returns (address) {
        B instance = (new B).value(msg.value)(42); // deploy B with `msg.value` wei, and put `42` as argument in constructor
        return instance;
    }
}

contract B {
    uint public num;
    constructor(uint _num) public payable {
        require(msg.value > 0); // value gets transferred from A when A deploys it
        num = _num; // num gets set to 42 when A deploys it
    }
}