Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: work.methods.workCount is not a function

Question

Describe the bug I am trying to call the public variable "workCount" from a smart contract using web3

Steps to reproduce:

const work = new web3.eth.Contract(ABI,Address)

const workCount = await work.methods.workCount().call()

Expected behavior

I am expecting these two lines of code to return the value of workCount

Actual behavior:

Once I run the application I get the following error:

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: work.methods.workCount is not a function

if I change the code to the following:

const workCount = await work.methods.workCount.call()

then this error is shows up:

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'call' of undefined

Contract Code:

pragma solidity ^0.5.0;

contract workReg {
  uint public workCount = 0;

  struct Work {
    uint id;
    string authorName;
    string workType; 
    string description;
    uint amount;
  }

  mapping(uint => Work) public works;

  constructor() public {
    createWork("Heba","Book", "IP blockchain book", 100);
  }

  function createWork(string memory _authorName, string memory _workType, string memory _description, uint  _amount ) public {
    workCount ++;
    works[workCount] = Work(workCount, _authorName,_workType, _description, _amount);
  }

 function getID() view public returns(uint){
    
    return  works[workCount].id;
}


 function getworkType() view public returns(string memory){
    
    return  works[workCount].workType;
} 


 function getdescription() view public returns(string memory){
    
    return  works[workCount].description;
} 

function getAmount() view public returns(uint){
    
    return  works[workCount].amount;
}

}

Answer 1

If you look through the comments on OP's question, it becomes clear that there was an issue with the ABI the OP was originally using (h/t @Ismael) - perhaps it was copy pasted incompletely, or maybe there was some file corruption. By regenerating the ABI, the code worked as expected.