.wait(confirmations) doesn't work with .deploymentTransaction()

[fvictorio]

Ethers Version

6.6.2

Search Terms

wait deploymenttransaction deploy deployment waiting confirmations

Describe the Problem

When tx.wait(confirmations) is called with a positive number of confirmations in a deployment transaction, ethers just waits for the transaction to be mined.

Surprisingly, this only happens with transactions obtained by contract.deploymentTransaction() 😕

This can be reproduced with the script below and a network with auto-mining, but I was also able to reproduce it in a non-automined context. In this snippet, the script should hang indefinitely because no other blocks are mined, but after the deployment has a single confirmation the promise is resolved.

Code Snippet

import { ethers } from "ethers";

// contract Empty {}
const bytecode =
  "6080604052348015600f57600080fd5b50603f80601d6000396000f3fe6080604052600080fdfea2646970667358221220eb7d8b96c5085b34df69cfa068561f217c2e4dccc766baa829b726350333785564736f6c63430008120033";

const provider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider();
const signer = await provider.getSigner(0);

const factory = new ethers.ContractFactory([], bytecode, signer);

const contract = await factory.deploy();

await contract.deploymentTransaction().wait(3)

Contract ABI

No response

Errors

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Environment

node.js (v12 or newer)

Environment (Other)

No response

[fvictorio]

Workaround here.

[ricmoo]

Will be fixed with #4230 in a patch shortly. :)

[ricmoo]

This should be fixed in v6.6.4. Please let me know if you still have any issues.

Thanks! :)

[fvictorio]

It works now, thanks!