How to encode param of type address

Question

I have this function in my contract:

 function removeRes(address _res) public onlyOwner {
        .
        .
        .
    }

I'm encoding ABI like:

const contractAddress = "0xf39Fd6e51aad88F6F4ce6aB8827279cffFb92266";

const selector = contract.interface.encodeFunctionData(
        "removeRes(address)",
        [contractAddress],
      );

I'm getting this error

Error: incorrect data length (argument=null, value="0x69a5b950000000000000000000000000f39fd6e51aad88f6f4ce6ab8827279cfffb92266", code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=abi/5.7.0)

I used an online tool (https://abi.hashex.org) and it gave the same value ("0x69a5b950000000000000000000000000f39fd6e51aad88f6f4ce6ab8827279cfffb92266")

Answer 1

These are scripts I tried.
(I think it's not ideal to continue the exchange here multiple times, so I'll present this source code and conclude my remarks. I apologize if it doesn't get resolved.)

In Solidity:

pragma solidity >=0.7.0 <0.9.0;

contract RemoveRes {

    address private owner;
    address public passedByRemoveRes;

    modifier onlyOwner() {
        require(msg.sender == owner);
        _;
    }

    constructor() {
        owner = msg.sender;
    }

    function removeRes(address _res) public onlyOwner {
        passedByRemoveRes = _res;
    }
}

In TS script. (I customized prepared script "deploy_with_ethers.ts" in IDE)

import { deploy } from './ethers-lib'

let contract;

(async () => {

  try {
    contract = await deploy('RemoveRes', [])
    console.log(`address: ${contract.address}`)
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e.message)
  }

  const contractAddress = "0xf39Fd6e51aad88F6F4ce6aB8827279cffFb92266";
  const selector = contract.interface.encodeFunctionData(
          "removeRes(address)",
          [contractAddress],
        );
  console.log(selector);

})();

Answer 2

How about remove (address) from 1st parameter ?

const selector = contract.interface.encodeFunctionData(
        "removeRes",  // <--- change here.
        [contractAddress],
      );

Answer 3

This is what worked for me. I don't really have some reference from some documentation or anything, but I got to this solution based on some recent working examples of code for similar use cases.

 const selector = paymaster.interface.encodeFunctionData(
        "removeRes(address)",
        [contractAddress],
      ).substr(0,10);

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Update: After digging further in the problem, I understand what the problem is. I was supposed to get the function selector and use it in my code.

For context, here's my code:

const selector = paymaster.interface.encodeFunctionData(
        "removeRestriction(address)",
        ["0xcAE47Bed7ec4A7598a06639A63e724204a759161"],
      );

const result = await anotherContract.functions
        .createRes(data.name, [address], [selector], [true])
        .then((r) => r.wait());
      return result;

This selector should be the first 4 bytes, which substr(0, 10) would return.

I was mislead by the error message and did not pay much attention to next lines of code, hence this code wasn't a part of my question description too.