Automatically create setters and getters

Question

I've read that getters are automatically created when you make a variable public. Can other contracts access these getters or is it only for web3.eth? Also what would be the getter name?

Answer 1

The getter's name is the variable's name. So in

contract foo {
    int public bar;
}

You can access it through someFooInstance.bar(). It should work the same in both web3.js and solidity (from another contract.) If it's an array (i.e. int[] public bar) or a mapping (mapping (address=>int) public bar) you can access specific elements through someFooInstance.bar(n).

There's no way to automatically create a setter, because a setter anyone can access is probably a bad idea. But there's no obvious way to decide who can and can't access a setter.