Erorr on generating solidity event that has 'string indexed' argument

• [ v ] I’ve asked for help in the Truffle Gitter before filing this issue.

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Issue

The error ‘Error: Number can only safely store up to 53 bits’ is shown when I call contact method that has ‘string indexed hello’ parameter in event. If I remove the ‘indexed’ word then it works fine. Method is called from truffle console

Steps to Reproduce

contract test { 
                uint _multiplier;
                event MultipliedLog(uint indexed a, uint indexed result, string indexed hello, address sender );

                function test(uint multiplier){
                    _multiplier = multiplier;
                }

                function multiply(uint a) returns(uint d) {
                    d = a * _multiplier;
                    MultipliedLog(a, d, "Hello world", msg.sender);
                    return d;
                }
            }

truffle(development)> migrate truffle(development)> var c = test.at(test.address) truffle(development)> c.address ‘0x345ca3e014aaf5dca488057592ee47305d9b3e10’ truffle(development)> c.multiply(18)

Expected Behavior

Method call should not fail. It works OK when is called from nethereum (.net c#)

Actual Results

Error: Number can only safely store up to 53 bits at assert (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:228025:21) at BN.toNumber (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:228525:7) at C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:182430:59 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at decodeParams (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:182426:9) at Object.decodeEvent (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:182471:10) at C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:317971:38 at Array.map (<anonymous>) at Object.decodeLogs (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:317942:19) at Object.callback (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:318070:35) truffle(development)> test.deployed().then(function(instance){instance.exit SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input at createScript (vm.js:80:10) at Object.runInContext (vm.js:119:10) at Console.interpret (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:200887:17) at ReplManager.interpret (C:\Users\vlukanin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:201603:18) at bound (domain.js:301:14) at REPLServer.runBound [as eval] (domain.js:314:12) at REPLServer.onLine (repl.js:441:10) at emitOne (events.js:116:13) at REPLServer.emit (events.js:211:7) at REPLServer.Interface._onLine (readline.js:282:10)

Environment

• Operating System: Windows 10
• Truffle version: 4.0.1
• Ethereum client: truffle develop. Same issue when using Ganache
• node version: 8.9.1
• npm version: 5.5.1

[selfresonator]

Hopefully I’m not missing something painfully obvious here, especially since this is my first time open source GitHub issuing! Anyway:

Contract

contract Elections is Ownable {
  event SendElection(string name, string description);

  function getElection() public {
    SendElection(electionList[0].name, electionList[0].description);
  }
}

In development console:

> compile
> migrate
> Elections.at("0x2a50...").createElection("Treasurer", "Run the Treasury!");
> Elections.at("0x2a50...").getElection(function(result){return result})

Error that runs both through the client and the development console:

BigNumber Error: new BigNumber() not a number: function (result){return result}
    at raise (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:45276:25)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:45264:33
    at new BigNumber (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:44292:67)
    at new BigNumber (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:44302:25)
    at toBigNumber (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:8991:12)
    at Object.toTwosComplement (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:9002:21)
    at SolidityTypeAddress.formatInputInt [as _inputFormatter] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:28380:38)
    at SolidityTypeAddress.SolidityType.encode (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:32746:17)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:69251:29
    at Array.map (native)

Whether I’m running this from the development console or a client, I shouldn’t be getting this error. I should only receive a callback in my event listener for SendElection() with either an error or the event. Correct? I know the elections are there by checking the length of the electionsArray I store them in.

[cgewecke]

@v-lukanin Apologies but I’m going to close this again for house-keeping. The error comes from one of our dependencies and is a long-standing issue there. Hopefully there will be a resolution in the future.