When a call to the chain_api is performed and fails, it will result in an RPCError object being generated which contains information on why the transaction failed.
The RPCError object will contain a concise error message, for instance 'Invalid transaction'. However additional details can be found in the details field and the json field. The json field holds the complete json response from nodeos. The details field specifically holds the error object in the json field. The data content of the json and details vary depending on the endpoint is used to call nodeos. Use the details field to quickly find error information.
In the details and json examples below, you can see that the error message may not contain enough information to discern what caused the action to fail. The error message contains eosio_assert_message assertion failure. Looking further at the details you can see an overdrawn balance message.
RpcError: eosio_assert_message assertion failure
at new RpcError (eosjs-rpcerror.ts:20:13)
at JsonRpc.<anonymous> (eosjs-jsonrpc.ts:90:23)
at step (eosjs-jsonrpc.js:37:23)
at Object.next (eosjs-jsonrpc.js:18:53)
at fulfilled (eosjs-jsonrpc.js:9:58)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:94:5) {
details: {
code: 3050003,
name: 'eosio_assert_message_exception',
message: 'eosio_assert_message assertion failure',
stack: [
{
context: {
level: 'error',
file: 'cf_system.cpp',
line: 14,
method: 'eosio_assert',
hostname: '',
thread_name: 'nodeos',
timestamp: '2021-06-16T05:26:03.665'
},
format: 'assertion failure with message: ${s}',
data: { s: 'overdrawn balance' }
},
{
context: {
level: 'warn',
file: 'apply_context.cpp',
line: 143,
method: 'exec_one',
hostname: '',
thread_name: 'nodeos',
timestamp: '2021-06-16T05:26:03.665'
},
format: 'pending console output: ${console}',
data: { console: '' }
}
]
},
json: {
head_block_num: 1079,
head_block_id: '00003384ff2dd671472e8290e7ee0fbc00ee1f450ce5c10de0a9c245ab5b5b22',
last_irreversible_block_num: 1070,
last_irreversible_block_id: '00003383946519b67bac1a0f31898826b472d81fd40b7fccb49a2f486bd292d1',
code_hash: '800bb7fedd86155047064bffdaa3c32cca76cda40eb80f5c4a7676c7f57da579',
pending_transactions: [],
result: {
id: '01a0cbb6c0215df53f07ecdcf0fb750a4134938b38a72946a0f6f25cf3f43bcb',
block_num: 1079,
block_time: '2021-06-14T21:13:04.500',
producer_block_id: null,
receipt: null,
elapsed: 189,
net_usage: 137,
scheduled: false,
action_traces: [Array],
account_ram_delta: null,
except: [Object],
error_code: '10000000000000000000',
bill_to_accounts: []
}
},
isFetchError: true
}