How to send transaction with Ethers?

[chronicIntrovert]

Hi all, I've been trying to wrack my head on this for a while and can't figure this out... would appreciate some help if available.

In the ethers.js docs, it mentions that hexlify should be able to convert an object into a hexstring, but when I try this code, it keeps providing me invalid hexlify value

Any ideas?

const transaction = {
  from: address,
  to: recipient,
  data: txnData,
};
transactionHash = await web3.sendTransaction(transaction);

Error with data is:

invalid hexlify value (argument="value", value={"from":"0x75448F128C57dfEEa0A4dd75D59a329c796e60cC","to":"0xaA4A41BfA93Be8Ac8D01182827433F227ba59f21","data":"0xf242432a00000000000000000000000075448f078c57dfeea0a4ee75d59a329c796e60cc000000000000000000000000aa3b12bfa93be8ac8d01182827433f227ba59e1700000000000000000000000000000000a40c89ec73b0452ca2154332b571e6cc000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000a00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"}, code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=bytes/5.5.0)

[zemse]

What is your web3 object? Is it an ethers provider? Can you mention where didi you get this example in the docs.

const provider = new ethers.provider.InfuraProvider('ropsten');
const wallet = new ethers.Wallet('privatekey', provider);
const unsignedTransaction = {
  from: address,
  to: recipient,
  data: txnData,
};
const tx = wallet.sendTransaction(unsignedTransaction);
console.log(tx.hash)

Does the above example help?

[chronicIntrovert]

Hi, this ended up being an issue with the provider as suggested. I was passing in an external provider typed to the wrong class.