Provider
Explain what a provider is...
Accounts Methods
Returns the balance of address as of the blockTag block height.
Returns the contract code of address as of the blockTag block height. If there is no contract currently deployed, the result is 0x.
Returns the Bytes32 value of the position at address, as of the blockTag.
Returns the number of transactions address has ever sent, as of blockTag. This value is required to be the nonce for the next transaction from address sent to the network.
Examples
// Get the balance for an account...
provider.getBalance("ricmoo.firefly.eth");
// { Promise: { BigNumber: "3446592266910605872" } }
// Get the code for a contract...
provider.getCode("registrar.firefly.eth");
// { Promise: 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}
// Get the storage value at position 0...
provider.getStorageAt("registrar.firefly.eth", 0)
// { Promise: "0x000000000000000000000000314159265dd8dbb310642f98f50c066173c1259b" }
// Get transaction count of an account...
provider.getTransactionCount("ricmoo.firefly.eth");
// { Promise: 531 }
Blocks Methods
Get the block from the network, where the result.transactions is a list of transaction hashes.
Get the block from the network, where the result.transactions is an Array of TransactionResponse objects.
Ethereum Naming Service (ENS) Methods
TODO: Explain ENS here...
Performs a reverse lookup of the address in ENS using the Reverse Registrar. If the name does not exist, or the forward lookup does not match, null is returned.
Looks up the address of name. If the name is not owned, or does not have a Resolver configured, or the Resolver does not have an address configured, null is returned.
Examples
// Reverse lookup of an ENS by address...
provider.lookupAddress("0x6fC21092DA55B392b045eD78F4732bff3C580e2c");
// { Promise: "registrar.firefly.eth" }
// Lookup an address of an ENS name...
provider.resolveName("ricmoo.firefly.eth");
// { Promise: "0x8ba1f109551bD432803012645Ac136ddd64DBA72" }
Logs Methods
Returns the Array of Log matching the filter.
Keep in mind that many backends will discard old events, and that requests which are too broad may get dropped as they require too many resources to execute the query.
Network Status Methods
Returns the block number (or height) of the most recently mined block.
Returns a best guess of the Gas Price to use in a transaction.
Transactions Methods
Returns the result of executing the transaction, using call. A call does not require any ether, but cannot change any state. This is useful for calling gettings on Contracts.
Returns an estimate of the amount of gas that would be required to submit transaction to the network.
An estimate may not be accurate since there could be another transaction on the network that was not accounted for, but after being mined affected relevant state.
Submits transaction to the network to be mined. The transaction must be signed, and be valid (i.e. the nonce is correct and the account has sufficient balance to pay for the transaction).
Returns a Promise which will not resolve until transactionHash is mined.
Event Emitter Methods
Explain events here...
Add a listener to be triggered for each eventName.
Add a listener to be triggered for only the next eventName, at which time it be removed.
Notify all listeners of eventName, passing args to each listener. This is generally only used internally.
Remove a listener for eventName. If no listener is provided, all listeners for eventName are removed.
Remove all the listeners for eventName. If no eventName is provided, all events are removed.
Returns the number of listeners for eventName. If no eventName is provided, the total number of listeners is returned.
Returns the list of Listeners for eventName.
Inspection Methods
Returns true if and only if object is a Provider.