From 3bccc4d9f0e07d42a3855891cb5b4efce3692001 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petar Penovic <penovicp@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 06:18:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: skip chainId eager load for RpcProvider initialization

---
 src/provider/rpc.ts | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/provider/rpc.ts b/src/provider/rpc.ts
index 44a535b70..a81680b32 100644
--- a/src/provider/rpc.ts
+++ b/src/provider/rpc.ts
@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ export class RpcProvider implements ProviderInterface {
     this.retries = retries || defaultOptions.retries;
     this.headers = { ...defaultOptions.headers, ...headers };
     this.blockIdentifier = blockIdentifier || defaultOptions.blockIdentifier;
-    this.chainId = chainId;
-    this.getChainId(); // internally skipped if chainId has value
+    this.chainId = chainId; // setting to a non-null value skips making a request in getChainId()
   }
 
   public fetch(method: string, params?: object, id: string | number = 0) {