Access variables through auto-generated getters from a different contract

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I am storing the variables of my token outside of the main contract in a contract called Storage and, therefore, need to access the auto generated getters of the publicly declared variables from a different contract than the one in which they are declared.

contract Storage {

    mapping (address => uint256) public balanceOf;
    mapping (address => mapping (address => uint256)) public allowance;

}

contract TokenA {

    address public storageAddress;

    function getAllowance(address _owner, address _spender) public returns (uint256) {
        return Storage(storageAddress). allowance( /** ? */);
    }

}

How could I access the variable allowance without specifically defining a getter inside the contract Storage?

Oct 3, 2018 in Blockchain by digger
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1 answer to this question.

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You just need to pass it in as if you were calling a function:

function getAllowance(address _owner, address _spender) public view returns (uint256) {
    Storage s = Storage(storageAddress);
    return s.allowance(_owner, _sender);
}

Be careful of the order. You may have to swap it depending on how you're handling storage.

answered Oct 3, 2018 by slayer
• 29,370 points

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