Loading multiple truffle artifacts from a single sol file

Question

Big picture: How do I get multiple contract instances from a single sol file using truffle-contract?

I have two Contracts in my .sol file (it's more of a contract factory)

const artifacts = require('../build/contracts/Contract.json');
const contract = require('truffle-contract');
const MyContract = contract(artifacts);

How do create an instance of the 2nd contract using truffle-contract? when i'm testing in mocha i can do

const SecondContract = artifacts.require("SecondContract");

but for some reason in truffle exec i get

TypeError: artifacts.require is not a function

Answer 1

Assuming you are using truffle javascript testing and you have a good understanding of mocha. Then you can easily create more instances of the same contract. So your syntax to create a new instance of a truffle contract should be.

 beforeEach(async () => {
    let SecondContract = await Contract.new()
})

Alternatively, perhaps you are asking a much simpler question that I imagined. When truffle artifacts are created for a single .sol file containing multiple contracts (such as in inherhitance), multiple artifacts are created (check the folder build/contracts/), try the following code snippet.

const artifacts = require('../build/contracts/Contract.json');
const SecondContract = require('../build/contracts/SecondContract.json')
const contract = require('truffle-contract');
const MyContract = contract(artifacts);
const myCoolContract = contract(SecondContract)

Perhaps you are missing a callback which is why truffle exec is not working as expected.

See https://truffleframework.com/docs/truffle/getting-started/writing-external-scripts