Extend transaction revert handling for eth.sendSignedTransaction

[nivida]

Expected behavior

eth.sendSignedTransaction should return the revert reason string as expected.

Actual behavior

eth.sendSignedTransaction does get executed but the signed transaction doesn't get decoded to get the revert reason string as expected.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. call eth.sendSignedTransaction and the revert instruction opcode does get called.

Versions

web3.js: latest

[nivida]

@gorgos As mentioned in the answer I gave you (comment) is this the issue to track the process of this enhancement. Feel free to propose the related PR.

[AnthonyAkentiev]

@nivida Hi Samuel. Please help... Lost 12 hours debugging this...
I've tried everything, but still can't get the revert reason.

I've tried web3@1.2.8's way to get it:

1. i've set web3.eth.handleRevert = true;
2. but the revert reason is still 'false' - in this line https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/blob/1.x/packages/web3-core-method/src/index.js#L465

My code is here - https://gist.github.com/AnthonyAkentiev/e8cd38328769284c110626b9e4a1379b

i've also tried this script -> https://gist.github.com/gluk64/fdea559472d957f1138ed93bcbc6f78a
i've also tried this script -> https://gist.github.com/KentonPrescott/e5e38da3b9c3c94ef7f233076e1ea64b#file-debuggingrevert-js

but nothing helped :-((((
We are using geth@1.9.12 node, maybe the reason is GETH not providing us with revert reason?

Thank you very much!

[ryanio]

@AnthonyAkentiev ah sorry to hear that! our ci is working with geth 1.9.13 so it should be working for you with 1.9.12. see here:
https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/blob/1.x/test/e2e.method.signing.js#L316

[Edited link for sendSignedTransaction test -cg]

can you confirm you are on 1.9.12 and not stable? there is a tracking issue for 1.9.14 with #3520

[AnthonyAkentiev]

@ryanio Thx for quick answer! Really appreciate it.
Oh, i double checked and our current version is '1.9.14-stable-6d74d1e5', should we use 1.9.12 to get 'reason' working?

[cgewecke]

@AnthonyAkentiev Yes, revert with reason only works up with geth up until 1.9.13.

1.9.14 introduced a bug which they just fixed today at go-ethereum 21083. When that's published we'll be able to restore reason fetching in the next patch release here.

[AnthonyAkentiev]

@cgewecke thx. checked current stable 1.9.15 and it worked!

[cgewecke]

Side-note for anyone else running into this... it looks like there will need to be code changes here to get the revert reason working again per the existing API for geth 1.9.15.

PR #3571 should resolve.