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description: web3.js-eea Client Library
web3.js-eea Client Library
The web3.js-eea library adds an additional property to your web3 instance by extending web3. Use the library to create and send RLP-encoded transactions using JSON-RPC.
!!! note web3.js-eea supports JSON-RPC over HTTP only.
Prerequisites
Add web3.js-eea to Project
npm install web3-eea
Initialize EEA Client
Initilize your EEA client where:
<JSON-RPC HTTP endpoint>
is the JSON-RPC HTTP endpoint of your Pantheon node. Specified by the--rpc-http-host
and--rpc-http-port
command line options.<chain_id>
is the chain ID of your network.
!!! example
js tab="Syntax" const EEAClient = require("web3-eea"); const web3 = new EEAClient(new Web3("<JSON-RPC HTTP endpoint>", <chain_id>);
```js tab="Example"
const EEAClient = require("web3-eea");
const web3 = new EEAClient(new Web3("http://localhost:8545", 2018);
```
Deploying a Contract with sendRawTransaction
To deploy a private contract, you need the contract binary. You can use Solidity to get the contract binary.
!!! example "Deploying a Contract with sendRawTransaction"
js const contractOptions = { data: `0x123`, // contract binary privateFrom: "orionNode1PublicKey", privateFor: ["orionNode3PublicKey"], privateKey: "pantheonNode1PrivateKey" }; return web3.eea.sendRawTransaction(contractOptions);
The transaction hash is returned. To get the private transaction receipt, use web3.eea.getTransactionReceipt(txHash)
.