Event signature on 'watch' callback

Question

I'm trying to monitor events using web3.js, with the allEvents() method. Is there a way to get a unique identifier for the event that was called?

When calling watch, the things you get from the callback are:

• address: String, 32 Bytes - address from which this log originated.
• args: Object - The arguments coming from the event.
• blockHash: String, 32 Bytes - hash of the block where this log was in. null when its pending.
• blockNumber: Number - the block number where this log was in. null when its pending.
• logIndex: Number - integer of the log index position in the block.
• event: String - The event name.
• removed: bool - indicate if the transaction this event was created from was removed from the blockchain (due to orphaned block) or never get to it (due to rejected transaction).
• transactionIndex: Number - integer of the transactions index position log was created from.
• transactionHash: String, 32 Bytes - hash of the transactions this log was created from.

Obviously, "event" is not sufficient as there can be multiple events with the same name but different signatures.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is possible in beta by doing event.raw.topics[0] (solidity stores the signature in the first topic). Also, event.signature was added to beta 11. See this issue.

docs:

myContract.once('MyEvent', {
  filter: {myIndexedParam: [20,23], myOtherIndexedParam: '0x123456789...'}, // Using an array means OR: e.g. 20 or 23
  fromBlock: 0
}, function(error, event){ console.log(event); });

// event output example
> {
    raw: {
      data: '0x7f9fade1c0d57a7af66ab4ead79fade1c0d57a7af66ab4ead7c2c2eb7b11a91385',
      topics: ['0xfd43ade1c09fade1c0d57a7af66ab4ead7c2c2eb7b11a91ffdd57a7af66ab4ead7', '0x7f9fade1c0d57a7af66ab4ead79fade1c0d57a7af66ab4ead7c2c2eb7b11a91385']
    },
    signature: '0xfd43ade1c09fade1c0d57a7af66ab4ead7c2c2eb7b11a91ffdd57a7af66ab4ead7',
    ...
}