Events don't work

I use the inpage-provider with the “extension-port-stream” package at my extension’s index page. The application with the provider can’t get subscription events (for example at newBlockHeaders, or receive transaction receipts after send).

this.web3.client.eth.subscribe('newBlockHeaders', (error, result) => {
      if (error) {
        console.error("Error happened at new block", error);
        return;
      }
    })
    .on("data", function(blockHeader){
      console.log("blockHeader", blockHeader);
    });

It shows some errors because of wallet_sendDomainMetadata, unexcepted account change and also the eventemitter memory leak, but the provider also seems initialized correct way, also I can send transactions, etc.

Init process:

    const metamaskPort = chrome.runtime.connect("nkbihfbeogaeaoehlefnkodbefgpgknn");
    const pluginStream = new PortStream(metamaskPort);
    let provider = new MetamaskInpageProvider(pluginStream);
    console.log("provider", provider);
    this.web3.client = new Web3(provider);

version: 4.0.4 (npm) web3: 1.2.6 browser: Chrome 80.0.3987.87

[nugaon]

Hi @rekmarks, I use 1.2.6 version of web3. I checked recently maybe this would be the problem and as I see in the main repo’s package.json, the Metamask uses ^0.20.7 which is a significant version difference. Is there any plan recently to update its version? At the new version there is no sendAsync function already, only the normal send methods with the EventEmitter returns that I also use in my application. As I see this repo doesn’t support this way to handle send requests only the sendAsync functions yet. If you would like to redesign and update it I would love to help in this, if somehow we could get in touch, because I don’t know the roadmap of the development as you can see at #20 pull request too.

[rekmarks]

Hi @nugaon, thank you for opening an issue. We’re looking into this and will get back to you this week.