How to compose a collection from elements defined in other files

[ekille-foreflight]

Below broadStInventory amends Inventory. In the cars Listing, I want to insert 'civic' which is built out in civic.pkl (instead of using new like the Rav4)

broadStInventory.pkl

amends "Inventory.pkl"
import "civic.pkl"

name = "Broad Street"

cars {
        civic    // is there a way to make this work?
	new {
		name = "Rav 4"
		year = 2007
	}
}

Inventory.pkl

import "Motorcycle.pkl"
import "Car.pkl"

name: String   // name of inventory
cars: Listing<Car>
motorcycles: Listing<Motorcycle>

class Inventory {
  motorcycles: Listing<Motorcycle>
  cars: Listing<Car>
}

civic.pkl

import "Car.pkl"

name = "Civic EX"
year = "1997"

[HT154]

This is very close as-is! The only difference is that civic.pkl must amend Car.pkl instead of importing it. Amending a module is conceptually identical to instantiating it via new

civic.pkl

amends "Car.pkl"

name = "Civic EX"
year = "1997"

Separately, the Inventory class in your Inventory.pkl module seems odd. The class appears unused and duplicate the module's existing properties. You can likely remove the class entirely. In Pkl, modules are classes.

[ekille-foreflight]

That was it! Inventory definitely needed some clean up. Thanks!