BalanceOf from BasicToken & totalSupply from ERC20Basic not working from Crowdsale.sol

Question

I'm using Crowdsale.sol from OpenZeppelin / zeppelin-solidity. Here's a snippet:

import '../token/MintableToken.sol';
import '../math/SafeMath.sol';

/**
 * @title Crowdsale 
 * @dev Crowdsale is a base contract for managing a token crowdsale.
 * Crowdsales have a start and end block, where investors can make
 * token purchases and the crowdsale will assign them tokens based
 * on a token per ETH rate. Funds collected are forwarded to a wallet 
 * as they arrive.
 */
contract Crowdsale {
  using SafeMath for uint256;

  // The token being sold
  MintableToken public token;

Is this inheriting from MintableToken?

MintableToken.sol inherits from StandardToken.sol and Ownable.sol. StandardToken.sol inherits from BasicToken.sol and ERC20.sol. BasicToken.sol inherits from ERC20Basic.sol and SafeMath.sol.

I want to use function balanceOf from BasicToken.sol and uint256 public totalSupply from ERC20Basic.sol, but these do not appear on remix.ethereum.org (using "JavaScript VM") after creating the Crowdsale contract .

If I change Crowdsale.sol to any of the following:

contract Crowdsale is StandardToken {

contract Crowdsale is MintableToken {

contract Crowdsale is BasicToken {

...balanceOf and totalSupply appear (after creating contract), but they only return 0. I send some funds to the contract and enter the sender's address into balanceOf and it returns 0. I click on totalSupply and it returns zero. They do not seem to be working.

What do I need to do to get these to work?

Answer 1

I think you are misunderstanding that class. From the looks of it Crowdsale.sol is a token factory. It will take payment to generate a MintableToken contract dynamically.

You would then need to access the newly minted Token to access the actual token functions.