Solidity Event Handling

Question

I have been trying to listen to the event of my smart contract; however, I receive the error.

MyContract.events.myEvent(

function(error, event){ 
    if(!error){
        $("#instructor").html(event.args.name + ' (' + event.args.age + ' years old)');
    }else{
        console.log(error); 
    }
    
})
     

I receive the following error

 Error: The current provider doesn't support subscriptions:

Web3.js version is [email protected]

I am well aware of the following solution; however, it doesn't work on my case anyway.

My smart contract

contract Coursetro {
    
   string fName;
   uint age;
   
   event Instructor(
    string name,
    uint age 
    );
   
   function setInstructor(string _fName, uint _age) public {
       fName = _fName;
       age = _age;
       Instructor(_fName, _age);
   }
   
   function getInstructor() public constant returns (string, uint) {
       return (fName, age);
   }
    
}

Answer 1

As @myanzik-shresth mentioned, you will need to use WebsocketProvider in order to subscribe to an event if you are using version [email protected]

Use

web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.WebsocketProvider('ws://127.0.0.1:8545'));

Not

web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:8545'));