Updated 2020-03-20

web3js-eea client library

The web3js-eea library adds a property to your web3 instance by extending web3. Use the library to create and send RLP-encoded transactions using JSON-RPC.

Note

web3js-eea supports JSON-RPC over HTTP only.

Prerequisites

Node.js (version > 10)

Add web3js-eea to project

npm install web3-eea

Initialize EEA client

Initialize your EEA client where:

<JSON-RPC HTTP endpoint> is the JSON-RPC HTTP endpoint of your Hyperledger Besu node. Specified by the --rpc-http-host and --rpc-http-port command line options.
<chain_id> is the chain ID of your network.

Example

Syntax

const EEAClient = require("web3-eea");
const web3 = new EEAClient(new Web3("<JSON-RPC HTTP endpoint>"), <chain_id>);

Example

const EEAClient = require("web3-eea");
const web3 = new EEAClient(new Web3("http://localhost:8545"), 2018);

Deploying a contract with sendRawTransaction

To deploy a private contract, you need the contract binary. You can use Solidity to get the contract binary.

Deploying a Contract with sendRawTransaction

const contractOptions = {
  data: `0x123`, // contract binary
  privateFrom: "orionNode1PublicKey",
  privateFor: ["orionNode3PublicKey"],
  privateKey: "besuNode1PrivateKey"
};
return web3.eea.sendRawTransaction(contractOptions);

web3.eea.sendRawTransaction(contractOptions) returns the transaction hash. To get the private transaction receipt, use web3.eea.getTransactionReceipt(txHash).

web3js-eea methods

For more information about the web3js-eea methods, see the web3js-eea reference documentation.