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Description
Version of Hardhat
2.23.0
What happened?
When calling a view on a smart contract, the AutomaticSenderProvider tries to get the sender address by calling eth_accounts, but that raises this error on most nodes:
ProviderError: the method has been deprecated: eth_accounts
at HttpProvider.request (/home/gabriel/workspace/ensuro/eth-prototype/tests/hardhat-project/node_modules/hardhat/internal/core/providers/http.js:91:27)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async AutomaticSenderProvider._getSender (/home/gabriel/workspace/ensuro/eth-prototype/tests/hardhat-project/node_modules/hardhat/internal/core/providers/accounts.js:289:31)
at async AutomaticSenderProvider.request (/home/gabriel/workspace/ensuro/eth-prototype/tests/hardhat-project/node_modules/hardhat/internal/core/providers/accounts.js:274:39)
at async staticCallResult (/home/gabriel/workspace/ensuro/eth-prototype/tests/hardhat-project/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:245:22)
at async staticCall (/home/gabriel/workspace/ensuro/eth-prototype/tests/hardhat-project/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:219:24)
at async Proxy.totalSupply (/home/gabriel/workspace/ensuro/eth-prototype/tests/hardhat-project/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:259:20)
at async main (/home/gabriel/workspace/ensuro/eth-prototype/tests/hardhat-project/script.js:5:15)
This is similar to #5572, but that issue and fix only cover the getSigners function. This one applies to all contract calls.
There are several workarounds for this:
- Setting the signer on contract creation.
- Adding
accountsto the network config
networks: {
polygon: {
url: process.env.NODE_URL,
chainId: 137,
accounts: ["0xdf57089febbacf7ba0bc227dafbffa9fc08a93fdc68e1e42411a14efcf23656e"],
},
},
- Settting
fromon the network config:
networks: {
polygon: {
url: process.env.NODE_URL,
chainId: 137,
from: "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
},
},
Installed versions:
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├── @nomicfoundation/[email protected]
├── @nomicfoundation/[email protected]
└── [email protected]
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a documentation issue, but a more descriptive message like "No sender configured" is better than the raw eth_accounts deprecated error.
Minimal reproduction steps
Set up a hardhat project with hardhat-toolbox. Set up a network such as polygon:
require("@nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox");
/** @type import('hardhat/config').HardhatUserConfig */
module.exports = {
solidity: "0.8.20",
networks: {
polygon: {
url: process.env.ALCHEMY_URL_POLYGON,
chainId: 137,
},
},
};Run this script with HARDHAT_NETWORK=polygon node script.sj:
// script.js
const hre = require("hardhat");
async function main() {
const contract = await hre.ethers.getContractAt("IERC20", "0x2791Bca1f2de4661ED88A30C99A7a9449Aa84174");
console.log(await contract.totalSupply());
}
main().catch((error) => {
console.error(error);
process.exitCode = 1;
});Search terms
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