Contract past events could not be fetched from zero block

[nazarhussain]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

Contract past events when fetched with options fromBlock: 0 does not fetch all events.

Expected Behavior

It should return all the events starting from zero block.

Steps to Reproduce

This works for any contract.

await example.getPastEvents("ExampleEvent", { fromBlock: 0, toBlock: "latest" })

Web3.js Version

4.0.1-alpha.2

Environment

• Operating System: Mac
• Browser: Brave
• Node.js Version: 16x
• NPM Version: 8x

Anything Else?

Interesting the following code works fine, but does not if we specify fromBlock: 0

await example.getPastEvents("ExampleEvent", { fromBlock: "earliest", toBlock: "latest" })

[nikoulai]

fixed in #5819