Account created with web3 does not get listed

Question

I am learning ethereum and I have setup a private node with geth. And have a simple client written to create account (web3 1.0 beta34) and list. While the account creation is successful, but it does not get listed,

code for account creation

var web3I    = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider("http://localhost:8545"));
var accountI        = new Accounts(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider("http://localhost:8545"));

var createAccount   = async () => {

    var {address, privateKey, signTransaction, sign} = await accountI.create();    
    var password    = "password";
    var keyStore    =   accountI.encrypt(privateKey, password);

};

code for account listing

var getAccounts   = async () => {

    var accounts = await web3I.eth.getAccounts();    
    console.log("accounts address    ", accounts);    

};

getAccounts();

Q: Why does the account does not get listed?

Answer 1

I think accounts.create just creates a new account object. You probably want to use web3.eth.personal.newAccount instead. The following code works for me:

var web3I = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider("http://localhost:8545"));

var createAccount = async () => {
    var {address, privateKey, signTransaction, sign} = await web3I.eth.personal.newAccount('password');    
};
createAccount();

var getAccounts = async () => {
    var accounts = await web3I.eth.getAccounts();    
    console.log("accounts address    ", accounts);    
};
getAccounts();

Answer 2

Got it worked by using web3.eth.personal.newAccount and adding --rpcapi="db,eth,net,web3,personal,account" to my geth node startup agruments.