From 4c36f55f2c8e9f8b393d8919b05d7abb46cb2432 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex <alex.luu@mail.utoronto.ca>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:11:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix waitingforreceipt error (#7098)

* fix waitingforreceipt error

* update cach

* remove comment

* throw other errors

* update changelog and text

* update linter
---
 packages/web3-eth/CHANGELOG.md               |  6 +++++-
 packages/web3-eth/src/rpc_method_wrappers.ts | 21 +++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/web3-eth/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/web3-eth/CHANGELOG.md
index 2b6c0e08005..ba620044bde 100644
--- a/packages/web3-eth/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/web3-eth/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -256,4 +256,8 @@ Documentation:
 -   WebEth has `setTransactionMiddleware` and `getTransactionMiddleware` for automatically passing to `sentTransaction` (#7088)
 - `TransactionMiddleware` and `TransactionMiddleware` data types are exported (#7088)
 
-## [Unreleased]
\ No newline at end of file
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Fixed
+
+-   Fixed geth issue when running a new instance, transactions will index when there are no blocks created (#7098)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/web3-eth/src/rpc_method_wrappers.ts b/packages/web3-eth/src/rpc_method_wrappers.ts
index 336aef3a23d..3a03afe0967 100644
--- a/packages/web3-eth/src/rpc_method_wrappers.ts
+++ b/packages/web3-eth/src/rpc_method_wrappers.ts
@@ -496,11 +496,22 @@ export async function getTransactionReceipt<ReturnFormat extends DataFormat>(
 		transactionHash,
 		DEFAULT_RETURN_FORMAT,
 	);
-	const response = await ethRpcMethods.getTransactionReceipt(
-		web3Context.requestManager,
-		transactionHashFormatted,
-	);
-
+	let response;
+	try {
+		 response = await ethRpcMethods.getTransactionReceipt(
+			web3Context.requestManager,
+			transactionHashFormatted,
+		);
+	} catch (error) {
+		// geth indexing error, we poll until transactions stopped indexing
+		if (typeof error === 'object' && !isNullish(error) && 'message' in error && (error as { message: string }).message === 'transaction indexing is in progress') { 
+			console.warn('Transaction indexing is in progress.')
+		} else {
+			throw error;
+		}
+		
+	}
+	
 	return isNullish(response)
 		? response
 		: (format(