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Unable to instantiate EthrDID

See original GitHub issue

I’m trying to instantiate EthrDID in the following way:

const providerConfig = { rpcUrl: 'https://rinkeby.infura.io/ethr-did' }
const issuer: Issuer = new EthrDID({
  identifier: identity.did, // my did
  privateKey: identity.privateKey, // my private key
  providerConfig  
})

I get this error:

error TS2351: This expression is not constructable.
Type 'typeof import("/app/node_modules/ethr-did/lib/index")' has no construct signatures.

I’m using “ethr-did”: “^2.1.4” on package.json

Maybe I’m misconfiguring the providerConfig parameter? Thanks and best regards

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

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mirceaniscommented, Jun 3, 2021

I think I see what’s happening now, after you shared your project. the import statement should be import { EthrDID } from "ethr-did"; instead of import EthrDID from "ethr-did";

You seem to have stumbled upon a bug in the docs that are somewhat outdated now.

Here’s a sample, based on your project, that works with ts-node:

import { EthrDID } from "ethr-did";
import { Issuer } from "did-jwt-vc";

const issuer: Issuer = new EthrDID({
  identifier: "did:ethr:0xb9c5714089478a327f09197987f16f9e5d936e8a",
  rpcUrl: "https://rinkeby.infura.io/v3/8a581af7416b4e7681d1f871b6945281",
  chainNameOrId: "rinkeby",
}) as Issuer;

console.log(issuer);

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