Troubles interacting with Chainlink node on Kovan

Question

I've been following instructions on running a local Chainlink node on Kovan. My environment is configured to Kovan through websockets via Infura and the node is both running and successfully accepts ETH and LINK transfers over Kovan:

The sample Oracle.sol contract was deployed on Kovan 0xa36085F69e2889c224210F603D836748e7dC0088 and the address of the node set with true value under setFulfillmentPermission:

I created a sample job with toml that creates successfully and generates a public job id:

The job id above is "5bdce20f-e3ef-4aa9-b5e2-89e1b523ca7d" and I set this in my contract as "5bdce20fe3ef4aa9b5e289e1b523ca7d". No matter the implementation, I have not been able to identify any runs on my console and they fail each time. This includes two variations of sample contracts I have been unsuccessful to transmit the run:

Besides reverting to an earlier version to deploy a node that transacts jobs under v1, I don't know how to go about debugging and getting the local node to acknowledge a run. Looking for help. Please let me know if there's any specific info I can provide to help.

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1. Oracle.sol smart contract deployed at address 0x2559c36Aee1dC9231d679D9b456265a46049dBfD
2. node wallet at address 0x58320a1e8377b6143614944b5418E71FEE35D7a8
3. job id 5bdce20f-e3ef-4aa9-b5e2-89e1b523ca7d

sample contracts:

ATestnetConsumer method RequestEthereumChange called with "0x2559c36Aee1dC9231d679D9b456265a46049dBfD", "5bdce20fe3ef4aa9b5e289e1b523ca7d" results in error:

status  false Transaction mined but execution failed
transaction hash    0xa5df1f36059f45b7b8f400166d0a2cd12654a4987e7129a0551e9fcb64b5fb9e
from    0x4de15D18F9dF69B52E249D5033458ecf4acc547d
to  ATestnetConsumer.requestEthereumChange(address,string) 0xE4492b62b2a1D27Fb694eD6AcAC05C4e5ee6E63A
gas 3000000 gas
transaction cost    2954345 gas 
hash    0xa5df1f36059f45b7b8f400166d0a2cd12654a4987e7129a0551e9fcb64b5fb9e
input   0x619...13764
decoded input   {
    "address _oracle": "0x2559c36Aee1dC9231d679D9b456265a46049dBfD",
    "string _jobId": "5bdce20fe3ef4aa9b5e289e1b523ca7d"
}
decoded output   - 
logs    []
val 0 wei

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APIConsumer method requestVolumeData results in error with following implementation:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.7;

import "@chainlink/contracts/src/v0.8/ChainlinkClient.sol";

/**
 * THIS IS AN EXAMPLE CONTRACT WHICH USES HARDCODED VALUES FOR CLARITY.
 * PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS CODE IN PRODUCTION.
 */
contract APIConsumer is ChainlinkClient {
    using Chainlink for Chainlink.Request;
  
    uint256 public volume;
    
    address private oracle;
    bytes32 private jobId;
    uint256 private fee;
    
    /**
     * Network: Kovan
     * Oracle: 0xc57B33452b4F7BB189bB5AfaE9cc4aBa1f7a4FD8 (Chainlink Devrel   
     * Node)
     * Job ID: d5270d1c311941d0b08bead21fea7747
     * Fee: 0.1 LINK
     */
    constructor() {
        setPublicChainlinkToken();
        oracle = 0x2559c36Aee1dC9231d679D9b456265a46049dBfD;
        jobId = "5bdce20fe3ef4aa9b5e289e1b523ca7d";
        fee = 0.1 * 10 ** 18; // (Varies by network and job)
    }
    
    /**
     * Create a Chainlink request to retrieve API response, find the target
     * data, then multiply by 1000000000000000000 (to remove decimal places from data).
     */
    function requestVolumeData() public returns (bytes32 requestId) 
    {
        Chainlink.Request memory request = buildChainlinkRequest(jobId, address(this), this.fulfill.selector);
        
        // Set the URL to perform the GET request on
        request.add("get", "https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/pricemultifull?fsyms=ETH&tsyms=USD");
        
        // Set the path to find the desired data in the API response, where the response format is:
        // {"RAW":
        //   {"ETH":
        //    {"USD":
        //     {
        //      "VOLUME24HOUR": xxx.xxx,
        //     }
        //    }
        //   }
        //  }
        request.add("path", "RAW.ETH.USD.VOLUME24HOUR");
        
        // Multiply the result by 1000000000000000000 to remove decimals
        int timesAmount = 10**18;
        request.addInt("times", timesAmount);
        
        // Sends the request
        return sendChainlinkRequestTo(oracle, request, fee);
    }
    
    /**
     * Receive the response in the form of uint256
     */ 
    function fulfill(bytes32 _requestId, uint256 _volume) public recordChainlinkFulfillment(_requestId)
    {
        volume = _volume;
    }

    // function withdrawLink() external {} - Implement a withdraw function to avoid locking your LINK in the contract
}

Answer 1

what I did wrong, in case it helps others:

1. jobs are highly specific pipelines, in tutorials make sure your job correlates to the smart contract
2. the contract may require to be funded with LINK, make sure the contract is funded if it's required