Creating a new contract specifying a sender and value with factory pattern

Question

I am using a factory pattern to deploy its children contracts here.

The child contract has a constructor as followed:

  constructor (
    string memory _potName,
    uint _duration,
    uint _minStake,
    PotType _potType
  )
  public payable { 
    require(msg.value >= _minStake); 
    ... 
  }

The factory contract create the child contract as:

  function createLotteryPot(
    string memory potName, uint duration, uint minStake,
    LotteryPot.PotType potType
  ) public payable returns(LotteryPot) {
    LotteryPot newContract = new LotteryPot({ _potName: potName,
      _duration: duration, _minStake: minStake, _potType: potType });
    ...
  }

My questions are:

1. In the factory contract, how can I pass the msg.value to the children contract? This is a requirement that during child contract creation, the owner also need to commit some ethereum.

2. How can I pass the msg.sender to the children contract to specify it is the owner instead of the contract? I understand I can pass in an additional parameter msg.sender. Just wonder is there a cleaner way to do it?

Thanks a lot for input.

Answer 1

As per the first question you can send value like this:

LotteryPot newContract = (new LotteryPot).value(amount)({ _potName: potName,
      _duration: duration, _minStake: minStake, _potType: potType });

Secondly, for sending the msg.sender you can change the signature as:

constructor (
    string memory _potName,
    uint _duration,
    uint _minStake,
    PotType _potType,
    address sender
  )
  public payable { 
    require(msg.value >= _minStake); 
    ... 
  }

and later on when calling the constructor from factory you can pass the sender as parameter like so:

LotteryPot newContract = (new LotteryPot).value(amount)({ _potName: potName,
      _duration: duration, _minStake: minStake, _potType: potType, sender: msg.sender });

Hope it will help.