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Testing safeTransferFrom with onlyAllowedOperator using chai/hardhat
I am writing tests for an NFT using safeTransferFrom with onlyAllowedOperator and the tests are failing with and without onlyAllowedOperator. Here's the function:
function safeTransferFrom(address ...
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Im trying to run a js script on the blockchain using hardhat ,it throws an error whenever I run it on the command line
This is the following error I get when running the command "npx hardhat --network localhost scripts/1_deploy.js"
HeadersTimeoutError: Headers Timeout Error
at Timeout.onParserTimeout [...
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check balance before and after transaction with chai
I'm writing the test cases for a contract, and I have a problem trying to match the balance, because of the transaction gas. what is the correct way to do it?
it("should allow the owner of the ...
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Error: Transaction reverted: function selector was not recognized and there's no fallback nor receive function
I'm getting a console error in hardhat test case
this is my solidity code
/**
* donateToCampaign - Allows a user to donate to a specific campaign.
*
* @param _id the ID of the campaign to donate to....
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conflict peer dependencies: nomicfoundation & hardhat-deploy-ethers
I'm facing a blockage so any help will be appreciated:
@nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers is an essential peer dependency to hardhat-deploy-ethers but that will prevent me from installing @nomicfoundation/chai-...
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Transaction reverted: trying to deploy a contract whose code is too large
My smart contract is over 300 lines of code, complete with events, modifiers, internal functions, getters and setters.
I'm trying to run tests using hardhat and chai. All I'm getting is this error:
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Unittest for excisting NFT
I have build a contract (not yet deployed) that allows to check if the msg.sender holds a certain NFT:
pragma solidity ^0.8.17;
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/interfaces/IERC721.sol";
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How can i bind log() to my runtime in my unit test file?
How can I make log() bind to my runtime in my chai unit-testing script?
I have a hardhat solidity project. Included snippets and pseudocode.
This framework is very new to me so if there are obvious ...
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AssertionError: expected Promise{…} to equal 1
Code:
describe("uploading post", async () => {
let result, postCounter
const hash = "whatever"
before(async () => {
result = await ...
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Error: VM Exception while processing transaction: reverted with reason string 'Didn't send enough!' on testing contract
Getting this error while testing one of functions functionality in the contract
AssertionError: Expected transaction to be reverted with You need to spend more ETH!!, but other exception was thrown: ...
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Principles of Testing Smart Contracts
Generally, when writing tests for smart contracts, how comprehensive do the tests have to be? Also, how does one know what to test (e.g., which line in the function in the original contract file the ...
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How to get the gas costs of a reversed transaction when testing (with Chai / ethers.js / Hardhat)?
Does anyone know how to get the gas costs of a reversed transaction when testing with Hardhat / Chai?
I found out I can get the receipt object of a transaction, which holds the required data to ...
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AssertionError: expected 0 to equal " ". The numerical values of the inputs were compared, and they differed
I'm pretty new to coding and solidiy - I'm testing a covered-call option smart contract in hardhat - specifically a function to check if the balance of the smart contract has been updated following ...
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Hardhat and Chai testing : How should I write the test?
I've digged through all the related question, but none of these worked for me.
I used this repo, and replaced the contract and test file : https://github.com/NomicFoundation/hardhat-boilerplate
EDIT ...
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TypeError: <FUNCTION_NAME>.owner / .connect() is not a function on hardhat unit testing
Plugin and tools used: hardhat-chai-matcher, chai, mocha
Issue:
Was wonder if its my environment setup wrong, so i ran other test but theyre passing just alright:
This is my test script written
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Hardhat chai .revertWith() not catching reverted error from Smart Contract
I am using Hardhat and chai for my testing and attempting to trigger an error that gets reverted to make sure my contract is acting properly. Note: I'm running on a forked hardhat chain of mainnet.
I ...
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Getting error while testing transfer function using chai
I have a function that transfers the amount from owner to user. I'm getting success in the event emitted message and my test is failing every time.
Here is my code.
function investInMPay(uint256 ...
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Event test failing because of address's casing
I am trying to test if the event is emitted with the correct arguments however my tests are failing because of some casing issue.
What is the best away to overcome this issue?
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Hardhat tests failing when testing require statement
Hi I am trying to test a smart contract I wrote using hardhat, with chai and @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers.
I have followed the documentation however I am having no luck.
Please see below the ...
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Writing Solidity tests for array length & contents (chai)
tdlr; solution
I had to await both of the values used in my assertions. For grabbing the length of the array, I needed to add a new method to my contract, as shown here. The reason for this is in the ...
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to.be.reverted function showing invalid chai property
it("money",async()=>{
console.log(await instance.hasRole("0xc5d48d6799b0d7d7cdfebe6afd6fac6dff6746359d2e02d434f8172e9a93fe97",accounts[8]));
console.log(await ...
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How do you know when an operation should be performed synchronously or asynchronously in smart contract tests?
What operations are usually perform asynchronously in smart contract tests, and what operations are usually performed synchronously in smart contract tests? When are each of these usually used?
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How do mocha and chai work?
I got this snippet from: https://hardhat.org/tutorial/testing-contracts
In this test, what does const { expect } = require("chai") mean? Also, I thought describe() is from the Mocha ...
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How does describe() in mocha work here?
I got this snippet from: https://hardhat.org/tutorial/testing-contracts
In this test, what does const { expect } = require("chai") mean? Also, I thought describe() is from the Mocha ...
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Why are there so many async and await in smart contract tests?
What’s the use of async and await and why are there so many of them in smart contact tests?
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What is a good way to learn Solidity? [duplicate]
I’ve been watching YouTube videos and learning from Udemy on solidity for a year. I have basic understanding of blockchain. My problem is that although the instructors show the what to do and how to ...
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Hardhat Testing: Error: Contract with a Signer cannot override from (operation="overrides.from", code=UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION]
I'm having problems with my testing. I'm using hardhat and chai library.
Solidity contract:
function setMsg(string memory _message) public{
message = _message;
}
and my testing file is ...
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How to check for emitted event inside solidity constructor when writing hardhat tests?
Say I have contract Foo:
contract Foo {
event OwnerAdded(address indexed owner);
address public owner;
constructor(address _owner) {
owner = _owner
emit OwnerAdded(owner)
}
How would I ...
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Chai expect not reverting when it does on-chain
I'm currently writing some tests for my contract to make sure the custom errors are being reverted in the contract. Example:
function fund(address sender, uint256 amount) public {
if (amount <...
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revertedWith not matched error message
I am expecting a revert from an Imported Ownable.sol contract since the executing address is not the owner of the function but the test fails without matching the error message thrown from the Ownable....
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ReferenceError: totalSupply is not defined
Im using a course, and I got this error:
ReferenceError: totalSupply is not defined
and Idk what it means by that, cause I never got this error before.
can somebody help me fix this error? thanks
and ...
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Approve and Transfer ERC20 Tokens in contract
I'm pretty new to solidity and struggling with some pretty simple stuff so I was hoping somebody would be able to help me out. Basically, I want to be able to send an existing ERC20 token (ie: USDT) ...
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hardhat: want to test an emit event that is in a library
file Library
library Events {
error Mint();
}
file Contract calling the event
emit Event.Mint()
Can't get Chai detect the event that is in the library
Throw this error in both cases: ...
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Encountering difficulties while writing tests with .connect(notDeployer)
I am currently working on my tests on hardhat, and I am currently stuck while trying to perform a transaction with another account than the deployer. Here is the test:
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describe("gift", ...
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Hardhat: AssertionError: expected 9999... to be a number or a date. What's the error exactly?
I have been trying to write test cases in Hardhat and came across this weird error. I am trying to compare 2 values and hardhat is giving me errors.
Code:
expect(BigNumber(userBalanceNew)).to.be....
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Is it possible to mock the low-level "call" in Solidity (0.8.9) using Waffle/Chai?
I am using Hardhat with Waffle/Chai assertions.
I am trying to set up mock contracts from waffle docs.
await mockContract.mock.call.returns(true, ethers.utils.formatBytes32String(""));
is ...
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How to validate functions in hardhat test
Actually i am validating an function to check that only whitelisted members or owner can access this function but when i am running this test file i am getting reverting error that
Error
Validations
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How to Properly Unit Test onlyOwner
My contract inherits the ownable.sol which has a mint() method that is marked onlyOwner like below:
function mint(address _to, string memory newTokenURI) public onlyOwner
I know that within the ...
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Issue with Hardhat's Chai Matchers
I have a solc version 0.6.6 contract which includes a basic withdraw() that looks like this
function withdraw() public onlyOwner {
owner.transfer(address(this).balance);
}
I also have couple of ...
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hardhat-chai-matchers: How to distinguish if a transaction was reverted because it ran out of gas or other reason?
I'm trying to force a ran out of gas error and test it using the new Hardhat's assertion library, @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers.
First I tried a very low gas of 1:
await expect(_attack.attack(...
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How to cause a .call to revert in hardhat test
I am trying to cover all of my lines in my smart contract unit tests with hardhat, and I am not sure how to test the Raffle__TransferFailed() error. Is there some way to force this transaction to fail?...
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How to reference a contract's library function in hardhat testing
I have a contract that uses an eth/usd price feed library to convert a uint value into its USD equivalent.
pragma solidity 0.8.0;
import "@chainlink/contracts/src/v0.8/interfaces/...
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How to use variables set inside a beforeEach with hardhat testing
describe("func", function () {
let owner
beforeEach(async function () {
const [owner] = await ethers.getSigners()
})
it.only("should correctly set the address", ...
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How can we assign owner's address in an OwnableUpgradeable contract?
So, I was testing my contract using Hardhat. So here's my doubt, somehow in my contract owner() and _msgSender() functions are returning different values (0x000.. in owner() ). Can someone pls guide ...
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Passing an error testing suite in contract
hello how do i make a proper testing suite for error?
the contract has this modifier for freeMint() fn
modifier protectTier(uint256 _level) {
require(
_level != privateTier, &...
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Hardhat test is not working
I try to run a simple test in Hardhat but for some reason it is not working it always returns:
0 passing (1ms)
This is the test:
const { ethers } = require("hardhat")
const { expect, assert ...
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How to return two variables of uint256 types while using Hardhat testing
I have a setter function that takes two arguments and makes a simple update of two variables.
uint256 public userAgeA;
uint256 public userAgeB;
function setAge(uint256 _userAgeA, uint256 _userAgeB) ...
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Migrating from Waffle
sorry for a newbie question. I have a file from my study with the following code:
const { expect, assert } = require("chai");
const { ethers } = require("hardhat");
const { ...
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Test if a smart contract function has been called
In my hardhat project I'm testing my smart contracts using chai.
For the sake of simplicity let's assume my contract is:
contract MyContract {
function a() external {
b();
}
function b() ...
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unit testing with chai : is there a way to simulate or force a failed transaction?
Using hardhat and chai, is there a way to simulate/force a transaction failure so the error code will execute?
e.g. with the following, I want it to throw the error because the transaction didn't ...
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