Setting a value (amount) when signing/sending a transaction becomes 0 when broadcasting

[zilveer]

Ethers Version

5.6

Search Terms

signTransaction, sendTransaction

Describe the Problem

Hi, I have gone through the docs since yesterday and I am literally unable to set the value when signing and making a transaction.
I dont get any error at all, but once the TX is sent to the network the value sent is literally 0.
Can someone please let me know what the issue is?

I am using EtherScanProvider for Goerli.

regards Zilveer

Code Snippet

var tx = {
        type: 2,  //why type 2?, https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js/discussions/2268
        from: wallet.address,
        to: wallet.address,
        data: '',
        value: 123456, 
        gasLimit: 21000,
        maxFeePerGas: 100000,
        maxPriorityFeePerGas: 200000,
      };

      // Signing a transaction
      var signedTransaction = await signer.signTransaction(tx);
      var tx = await signer.sendTransaction(signedTransaction);

Contract ABI

No response

Errors

There are literally no errors, but the value I set `123456` when sending my ETH on goerli literally becomes 0 even though I have enough with ETH.

What am I doing wrong here?

Environment

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Environment (Other)

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[ricmoo]

A signed transaction is a string. The signer.sendTransaction expects a transaction request. So, basically your string you are passing in is an object with no interesting tx-based properties set on it.

You can either pass your signed tx to the provider.sendTransaction or just pass in tx to signer.sendTransaction.

Here is an example: https://docs.ethers.org/v5/getting-started/#getting-started--sending

Let me know if you still have any issues. :)

(moving to Q&A)

[zilveer]

A signed transaction is a string. The signer.sendTransaction expects a transaction request. So, basically your string you are passing in is an object with no interesting tx-based properties set on it.

You can either pass your signed tx to the provider.sendTransaction or just pass in tx to signer.sendTransaction.

Thank you so much, but I didnt quite understand first what you meant. But i did like you mentioned:
var txBroadcasted = await signer.sendTransaction(tx);

It seems like since we use signer when sending the transaction it signs the tx by itself before sending the transaction correct?

It is anyway all working good now, thx for the help!

Off topic question: do you guys have any official Telegram or Discord group for Etherjs?
regards Zilveer

[ricmoo]

Yupp! I should add it to the docs: discord. :)