Lesson 5 Hardhat getting error in code

[gradder7]

this the code and i am getting the error when deploying to the network

const hardhat = require("hardhat");

async function main() {
  // signer
  const [deployer] = await hardhat.ethers.getSigners();
  console.log("deploying contract to:", deployer.address);

  // deployment of contract
  const SimpleStorageFactory = await hardhat.ethers.getContractFactory(
    "SimpleStorage"
  );
  const simpleStorage = await SimpleStorageFactory.deploy();
  await simpleStorage.waitForDeployment();
  const address = await simpleStorage.getAddress();
  console.log("address", address);
  // what happens when we deploy to our hardhat network?
  //for local it should not verify
  if (
    hardhat.network.config.chainId !== 31337 &&
    process.env.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY
  ) {
    // console.log(hardhat.network.config);
    // wait the verifaction wait for few blocks to mined
    console.log("waiting for block txes...");

    await simpleStorage.deploymentTransaction().wait(6);
    // verify it
    await verify(address, []);
  }

  const currentVal = await simpleStorage.retrieve();
  console.log("current value is :", currentVal);

  //update the current value
  const TransactionResponse = await simpleStorage.store(7);
  await TransactionResponse.wait(1);
  const updatedValue = await simpleStorage.retrieve();
  console.log("updated val :", updatedValue);
}

// verify the contract
const verify = async (contractAddress, args) => {
  console.log("verifying contract address...");
  // try cathc to check the contract is alreday verified or not
  try {
    await hardhat.run("verify:verify", {
      address: contractAddress,
      constructorArguments: args,
    });
    // if alredy deployed
  } catch (error) {
    if (error.message.toLowerCase().includes("already verified")) {
      console.log("already verified!");
    } else {
      console.log(error);
    }
  }
};

main()
  .then(() => process.exit(0))
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log(err);
    process.exit(1);
  });

error

deploying contract to: 0x00dEbD04195C8E2c64c735121B520a6675148970
address 0x5D926EA3644Ab99596A93040D7C3FC4ba1B78afc
waiting for block txes...
verifying contract address...
ContractVerificationMissingBytecodeError: Failed to send contract verification request.
Endpoint URL: https://api-sepolia.etherscan.io/api
Reason: The Etherscan API responded that the address 0x5D926EA3644Ab99596A93040D7C3FC4ba1B78afc does not have bytecode.
This can happen if the contract was recently deployed and this fact hasn't propagated to the backend yet.
Try waiting for a minute before verifying your contract. If you are invoking this from a script,
try to wait for five confirmations of your contract deployment transaction before running the verification subtask.
    at Etherscan.verify (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\@nomicfoundation\hardhat-verify\src\etherscan.ts:108:13)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at SimpleTaskDefinition.action (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\@nomicfoundation\hardhat-verify\src\index.ts:478:33)
    at Environment._runTaskDefinition (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:330:14)
    at Environment.run (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:163:14)
    at SimpleTaskDefinition.action (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\@nomicfoundation\hardhat-verify\src\index.ts:305:9)
    at Environment._runTaskDefinition (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:330:14)
    at Environment.run (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:163:14)
    at SimpleTaskDefinition.action (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\@nomicfoundation\hardhat-verify\src\index.ts:554:7)
    at Environment._runTaskDefinition (D:\Himanshu\Projects and code\Practice and proj\BlockChain\Pattrick_Collins\hardhat_new\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:330:14)
current value is : 0n
updated val : 7n

help me?

[alymurtazamemon]

@gradder7 It is just a verification issue, etherscan did not index the contract before you verified it, now you can comment out the rest of the code and only can run the verification function and etherscan will verify this now.