Cannot prevent site suggested gas price in Metamask

[jalaguerom]

Expected behavior

Passing maxPriorityFeePerGas and maxFeePerGas as undefined to contract.method.send function should make Metamask calculate gas prices on its own based on market value.

Actual behavior

Metamask shows site suggested gas price and incorrect speed time values

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Install latest Metamask version
2. Try to send a transaction to a smart contract abi method using send function, without sending maxPriorityFeePerGas and maxFeePerGas

Related issue: #7081. Solution talks about ignoreGasPricing parameter but it is not present in the send function

web3js version: 4.13.0

[mconnelly8]

Hey @jalaguerom, I'll have someone look into this soon.

[jdevcs]

@jalaguerom we will expose this ignore gas pricing flag at contract send level ( for each send() call and also I think at contract instance level).
cc: @mconnelly8

[luu-alex]

Hey there in the meantime of fixing this, you can encode your abi contract into data and send it as a transaction. @jdevcs we can add this as a ignoregas as a config as well.

        const contract = new web3.eth.Contract(yourContract)
        const data = marketplaceContract.methods.yourmethod("param1", "param2").encodeABI();
        web3.eth.sendTransaction({from: accounts[0], data, to: "address"}, undefined, {ignoreGasPricing: false})

[zikyfranky]

Hey @luu-alex, going through this problem as well.

While your fix works, it's tedious to rewrite every instance where I used the .send function, is it possible to specify the ignoreGasPricing flag on the Contract Instance? That way I run my code as is.

[luu-alex]

@zikyfranky a fix will be created soon, sorry your also running into this issue.

[jalaguerom]

Thanks a lot. I'll be waiting until that feature is included @jdevcs

[jdevcs]

cc: @mconnelly8 for next sprint.

[luu-alex]

@jdevcs i think we should include it in this sprint, i can fix this and get it released this sprint.

[lukatavcer]

@jdevcs i think we should include it in this sprint, i can fix this and get it released this sprint.

I would also appreciate if you include it in the current sprint, thanks :)

[mconnelly8]

@luu-alex, added it to the sprint! Do your thing!

[lukatavcer]

Expected behavior

Passing maxPriorityFeePerGas and maxFeePerGas as undefined to contract.method.send function should make Metamask calculate gas prices on its own based on market value.

Actual behavior

Metamask shows site suggested gas price and incorrect speed time values

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Install latest Metamask version
2. Try to send a transaction to a smart contract abi method using send function, without sending maxPriorityFeePerGas and maxFeePerGas

Related issue: #7081. Solution talks about ignoreGasPricing parameter but it is not present in the send function

web3js version: 4.13.0

what also works is setting gasPrice: ""

someContract.methods.someMethod().send({
    from: activeAccountAddress,
    gasPrice: "",
}

[luu-alex]

Added ignoregaspricing config to prevent site suggested gas price in metamask. This release will be aiming for monday, you can see usage here
Thanks everyone :)