Internal Contract to Public Function Visibility

Question

Say I have an internal contract which returns a uint256 variable which is 1.

Internal Function (some input) returns (1)

This internal function is called by a public function. Is there any way to intercept the internal transaction call and see what data is being returned specifically for that transaction? Or is it a case of being specific to temporary memory where once retrieved, the data is more or less "burned."

Answer 1

That design (i.e. a public function that calls a private function) is pretty commun since private function uses less gas than public.

I'm not sure what you mean by intercept the internal transaction call tho... Can you explain?

If you want to see what the internal function returns then just do

function myInternalFunction(some input) internal returns(uint) {
     //Here do whatever you need
    return (results);
}
function myPublicFunction(some input) public returns(uint) {
    return myInternalFunction(some input);
}