Failing to load events on a new provider

[alex-miller-0]

I am building an application that requires me to interact with a provider, switch providers, and pull events from the new provider (e.g. localhost:7545 -> localhost:8545). After switching providers, I get zero events about 90% of the time (I can see logs of the events in a separate web3 console). The only way to get the events in Metamask seems to be restarting Chrome entirely. What's strange is that once in a while, things work as expected, but that's probably 1 in 10 tries.

Expected Behavior

Upon switching providers, I expect the new provider to collect events from a contract that has emitted them.

Actual Behavior

No events are found from e.g. allEvents.get() after switching providers until I reboot Chrome.

Browser Used

Chrome 63.0

Operating System Used

macOS Sierra

[danfinlay]

Have you tried reloading the page after switching the provider (if it isn't automatically)?

[alex-miller-0]

Yes, hard reloading didn't solve it. Neither did switching users and coming back to the original user.

[alex-miller-0]

Interesting to note: I am not finding this buggy behavior on Brave.

[danfinlay]

Hey @alex-miller-0, is this still an issue for you? We did some things that may have fixed this.

[danfinlay]

We could really use reproduction steps here, or we should maybe close it in favor of #2978.

[alex-miller-0]

Sorry for the delay. Here are the reproduction steps (only in Chrome):

1. Load page with logs - get logs
2. Switch providers in Metamask
3. Page reloads automatically - no logs

I haven't worked on that project in a while and can't seem to get my workflow working, so I can't verify if it's still there or not.

I think it's okay if you close this for now and I'll let you know if I see it again. Good work squashing all those log bugs!

[danfinlay]

Certainly not all yet, some still out there for sure. Thanks for the follow up!