The method eth_chainId does not exist/is not available

Question

I'm having troubles when estimating the gas to call to one of the methods of my contract deployed in kaleido.

I've successfully deployed the contract through Remix. Also from Remix I can call all my methods and they are working ok. From web3js I've instantiated it, and I can check the balance of my accounts from within web3js (1.0.0-beta.47), but when estimating the gas to call one of the methods of my contract I am getting the error "The method eth_chainId does not exist/is not available".

The code:

const provider = new Web3.providers.HttpProvider("https://<USER>:<PASS>@<NODE RPC ENDPOINT>");
const web3 = new Web3(provider);
const deploy = web3.eth.accounts.privateKeyToAccount(<ACCOUNT PRIVATE KEY>);
const contract = new web3.eth.Contract(contractAbi, contractAddress, { gasPrice: 1, gas: 4500000 });
var estimatedGas = await contract.methods.myMethod().estimateGas({ from: deploy.address });

The error:

Error: Node error: {"code":-32601,"message":"The method eth_chainId does not exist/is not available"}

Any idea what's is wrong?

Answer 1

It is a bug (or a missing feature, I'm not sure) in Ganache. That issue is tracked here: https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-core/issues/339

Until that is resolved, you need to downgrade all the way back to beta.38

Answer 2

I've checked with the kaleido support and it seems you have to use web3js 1.0.0-beta.38 to make it work.

Answer 3

I use web3js 1.0.0-beta.36 to solve this error