Date of last update: February 9, 2023

Access private and privacy marker transactions

A Hyperledger Besu private transaction creates a privacy marker transaction and the private transaction itself.

Transaction receipts

With the transaction hash returned when submitting the private transaction, to get the transaction receipt for the:

Private transaction, use priv_getTransactionReceipt.
Privacy marker transaction, use eth_getTransactionReceipt.

The transaction receipt includes a status indicating if the transaction failed (0x0), succeeded (0x1), or was invalid (0x2).

Private transaction failure example

To deploy a private contract, you submit a transaction using eea_sendRawTransaction. If contract deployment fails because of insufficient gas, the privacy marker transaction receipt has a status of success and the private transaction receipt has a status of failure.

Transactions

With the transaction hash returned when submitting the private transaction, to get the:

Private transaction, use priv_getPrivateTransaction.
Privacy marker transaction, use eth_getTransactionByHash.