Failing url dependency in the browser

[gomezgoiri]

When I pass a privateUrl to the Web3Quorum constructor in the browser, the url dependency fails here.

I checked the dependencies of web3js-quorum and there is no "url" defined.

After checking my project's dependencies, I see that it react-scripts transitively adds url@0.11.0. This is probably not the dependency Web3Quorum should be using because it does not have any constructor (you should use Url.parse() instead).

I see different solutions:

• Adding the original dependency to Web3Quorum.

• Using url@0.11.0 and explicitly defining it as Web3Quorum's dependency

• const { URL } = require("url");

• const Url = require("url"); ...

• const { protocol } = new URL(privateEndpoint);

• const { protocol } = Url.parse(privateEndpoint);

• Use a package like universal-url or iso-url to rely on browser's URL implementation whenever it is possible and to use a different implementation on NodeJS. For example:

• const { URL } = require("url");

• require('universal-url').shim(); ... const { protocol } = new URL(privateEndpoint);

[peterkruty]

Sorry unrelated request, but did you solved this? @gomezgoiri ? Also could you please post a short guide, how to build web3js-quorum for browser? Can't make it work.

[gomezgoiri]

Sorry, I was just testing web3js-quorum at that time and I ended up not using privateEndpoint (and therefore the ptm module).

Priv is enough for our solution, so I simply specify the endpoint of the Besu node (not GoQuorum) which talks to Tessera and use it like this:

const EEAClient = require("web3js-quorum")
...
const web3 = new EEAClient(new Web3(endpoint), chainId)
web3.priv.whatever()

[peterkruty]

Thanks!