Autofill gasPrice on transactions without gas specified - Yes/No

[nazarhussain]

Hi everyone,

Currently in web3, we have a particular behaviour for web3.eth.sendTransaction to auto fill the gasPrice if user don't specify it. We use eth_gasPrice json-rpc call internally for this purpose.

Recently we got a request a request to modify this behaviour and don't auto-fill the gasPrice.

We observed that larger community is dependent on this behaviour and never want to send a transaction without gas price and not everyone would like to inject their own gas price all the time. So we seek for input from the larger community before deciding any direction on it.

Its your project and your feedback and direction is so important for us. So share your feedback and spread this to other eth developers as well.

[nazarhussain]

Based on discussion among team, we decided to implement this as a new feature. There should be a configuration option in all related functions to fill in or not fill-in default values for transaction with default behavior matching to 1.x release.

We also look forward to community feedback to further shape up the feature for better usability and adoption.