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Add a .toBigInt() method to BigNumber type

See original GitHub issue

Ethers accepts BigInt’s as inputs for BigNumberish types, but getting a BigInt from a returned BigNumber is a bit clunky with BigInt(myBigNumber.toString())

I saw in https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js/issues/594#issuecomment-526807810 you mentioned that “There will likely be an instance method that will return a BigInt (similar to the instance.toNumber())”, though that method still doesn’t exist.

I’m happy to submit a PR for it, as long as you still support adding an instance.toBigInt() method, and my only question would be whether to throw or return null on platforms that don’t support BigInt

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Created 2 years ago
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ricmoocommented, Mar 30, 2021

This should now be available in 5.1.0.

Try it out and let me know if there are any issues. 😃

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ricmoocommented, Mar 30, 2021

I have a bunch of other changes I’m pushing out today with v5.1, and this is something that makes sense for that minor bump. I’ll add it today. 😃

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