Proper way to give parameters with a contract call?

Question

I am trying to do a contract call with some parameters. I do this with a NodeJS Express API.

The code looks as following:

var array = JSON.parse(req.body.arguments);
                getContractFromABIAndAddress(req.body.abi, req.body.contractAddress, function(contract) {
                    contract.methods[req.body.method](array).send({from: config.publickey}).on('receipt', function(receipt) {
                        res.json({
                            txHash: receipt.transactionHash,
                            contractAddress: receipt.contractAddress,
                            txURL: config.etherscantransaction + receipt.transactionHash,
                            contractURL: config.etherscanaddress + receipt.contractAddress
                        })
                    });
                })

The req.body.arguments contains the needed parameters and the req.body.method contains the right method to call on the contract.

I can test the code with postman, the body would look like the following picture.

Now as you can see here: Web3 Contract docs, I am using the second option. myContract.methods['myMethod(uint256)'](123)

The problem is that I can't send multiple parameters, the contract needs the parameters like this: myContract.methods['myMethod(uint256,uint256)'](2,2) but I am giving them like this myContract.methods['myMethod(uint256,uint256)']([2,2]).

This results in the following:

Which means that the contract call is only getting one parameter according to the error logs and to the web3-eth-contract library. This can be solved by doing the following:

Which turns my parameters back to the right format:

If the Web3 library would get an update now, my NodeJS API wouldn't work anymore because I have been messing with the library. I can't find any other way to give the parameters with the contract call, or with contract send, since the problem also exists over there.

Could someone help me out?

Answer 1

I believe this should work:

contract.methods[req.body.method].apply(contract, array)

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function/apply.