Truffle cant deploy contract with reverting constructor

Question

I'm developing a dapp with the truffle suite and now I'm running into a problem. Everything is working locally in the ganache instance.

My contract should disallow direct payments to the contract, so my constructor looks like:

/**
 * @dev Disallow payments to this contract directly
 */
constructor() public {
    revert("No direct payments");
}

https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook/blob/develop/code/auction_dapp/backend/contracts/AuctionRepository.sol

But now the Deploy by truffle reverts with the given message.

Removing the line where the constructor is reverting and everything works fine. The contract is deployed and tested. The contracts are deployed like this:

var SecondPriceAuction = artifacts.require("./VickreyAuctionHouse.sol");
module.exports = function(deployer) {
  deployer.deploy(SecondPriceAuction);
};

Any ideas how to deploy a contract, that does not allow calling the constructor.

Answer 1

It is not the constructor that should have the revert but the fallback function.

From the example you linked

/**
* @dev Disallow payments to this contract directly
*/
function() public{
    revert();
}