Get more detailed error message on transaction failure ("Internal JSON-RPC error" vs. "Code: -32000 Message: insufficient funds for gas * price + value")

[thatguyintech]

Describe the Feature

Is there a way to pipe the more detailed error code back from the failed transaction response? Basically to have ethers.js return a more detailed response string:

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/132563/how-to-get-detailed-error-message-from-alchemy-using-ethersjs

Alchemy should be returning the error code along with the error reasoning, as per the docs:

https://docs.alchemy.com/alchemy/apis/ethereum/eth-sendrawtransaction

Code Example

No response

[zemse]

Are you using the latest ethers? Also when error is catched, the error.message might not contain the actual issue and it might be buried inside so you might try error.error.message.

Ethers is a modular lib, it makes it easy to change functionality into a custom one. Hence it requires every module to implement low-level sanity checks to ensure it's working correctly. Because of that the error that bubbles up at the top might not be the most helpful error, but low-level errors must be available in the error object.