Events Subscription
Client side subscription to events emitted by the solidity smart contracts
Events in simple terms, are logging mechanisms to notify the world, outside of the smart contracts, that something has occurred on the blockchain. For example, a Transfer event is emitted when an ERC20 token transfer occurs.
Let ‘s assume that we have the following contract EventsDemo that emits an event contractEvent, whenever the contract variable intVal is changed.
//SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED
pragma solidity ^0.8.4;
contract EventsDemo {
int public intVal;
event contractEvent(int, string);
constructor() {
intVal = 100;
}
function setVal(int _val) public {
intVal = _val;
emit contractEvent(_val, "Value changed");
}
}
Assuming this contract is deployed at address 0x00Fe7CBE594FF95CaA560336D6e1B7eAC2C59eCe on the Arctic network, we can subscribe to the contractEvent event using the following code.
const Web3 = require('web3');
const web3 = new Web3('wss://arctic-rpc.icenetwork.io:9944');
const typesArray = [
{ type: 'int256', name: 'intVal' },
{ type: 'string', name: 'str' },
];
web3.eth.subscribe('logs', {
address: '0x00Fe7CBE594FF95CaA560336D6e1B7eAC2C59eCe',
topics: [web3.utils.sha3('contractEvent(int256,string)')] // only interested in the “contractEvent” event
}, (error) => {
if (error)
console.error(error);
})
.on("connected", function (subscriptionId) {
console.log(subscriptionId);
})
.on("data", function (log) {
// Decode the received data into JS object
const decodedParams = web3.eth.abi.decodeParameters(typesArray, log.data);
console.log(decodedParams);
});
The demonstrated code was tested with web3.js v1.7.1 and solc v0.8.12.
First of all, our code creates a web3 instance connected to the Arctic network websocket endpoint. Then we subscribe to event logs of the deployed instance of the EventsDemo contract at address 0x00Fe7CBE594FF95CaA560336D6e1B7eAC2C59eCe, and only listen for the specific contractEvent being emitted. Finally, when this event is emitted by the contract, our code decodes the hex data into JS object and outputs it to the console.
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