I'm trying to pass a Web3Provider as a prop to a hook with others, and I keep getting an error
Here's the code of how I get the provider
const provider = new ethers.providers.Web3Provider(window.ethereum)
Then I have inside the return statement:
<Form provider={provider} />
And in the hook
export const Form = (provider: ethers.providers.Web3Provider) => {
Types should be the same, but I keep getting the error:
(JSX attribute) Web3Provider.provider: ethers.providers.ExternalProvider Type 'Web3Provider' is not assignable to type 'ExternalProvider'. Types of property 'send' are incompatible. Type '(method: string, params: any[]) => Promise' is not assignable to type '(request: { method: string; params?: any[] | undefined; }, callback: (error: any, response: any) => void) => void'. Types of parameters 'method' and 'request' are incompatible. Type '{ method: string; params?: any[] | undefined; }' is not assignable to type 'string'.
I have tried casting to any in the form, but then I get an error when calling a method I can call outside.
The error message indicates that the type of provider that you're passing to the Form component is not compatible with the expected type of ethers.providers.ExternalProvider.
One way to solve this issue is to cast the Web3Provider to an ExternalProvider before passing it to the Form component. You can do this by adding the following line before passing the provider as a prop:
const externalProvider = provider.provider as ethers.providers.ExternalProvider;Then, you can pass externalProvider instead of provider to the Form component:
<Form provider={externalProvider} />This should resolve the type error that you're encountering.
Alternatively, you can update the type of the provider prop in the Form component to accept a Web3Provider instead of an ExternalProvider. To do this, you can change the type of the provider prop to:
provider: ethers.providers.Web3Provider;Then, you should be able to pass the provider directly to the Form component without casting it to an ExternalProvider:
<Form provider={provider} />