How to save the contract instance on a mapping in solidity?

Question

I have created an EnergyExchange contract in my React app.js that it is deployed in the network.

Inside the EnergyExchange contract there is a function to create Agent contracts.

What I am trying to do is store the instance of the Agent contract somewhere in the EnergyExchange contract so whenever I want I can retrieve its instance and interact with him within my React web.

I was thinking on doing something like this:

pragma solidity ^0.4.24;

import "./Ownable.sol";
import "./Agent.sol";

contract EnergyExchange is Ownable{
    
     struct Info {
        Agent ainstance;
    }
    mapping (address => Info) public contractInstance;
    
    
   function addAgentContractInstance(Agent _contractInstance) public{
        contractInstance[msg.sender].ainstance = _contractInstance;
       
    }
    
    function getAgentContractInstance() public view returns (Agent){
        //return contractInstance[msg.sender];
        return contractInstance[msg.sender].ainstance;
    }

    
    
    
}

But i am getting the following error when calling the functionlike this in React:

let agentInstance = await AgentContract(this.web3.currentProvider,this.exchange.address,this.state.account);

await this.exchange.addAgentContractInstance(agentInstance,{from:this.state.account}); 

Error:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Invalid number of arguments to Solidity function

The instance object is causing this error can be seen next:

Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

The function addAgentContractInstance accepts a contract address as input parameter. When you pass a contract, like Agent in this case, the type parameter is address.

So the call is expecting an address and you pass an TruffleContract instance. To fix the call you have to pass the address of the instance:

this.exchange.addAgentContractInstance(agentInstance.address,

The javascript side could do more and recognize that a TruffleContract instance has an address but it does not, perhaps it could be a good improvement.