Ethereum call contract method that emits an event from another contract

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I have a contract, that calls a method on another contract, which causes it to emit an event - which I am listening for in a node process.

If I execute the method that fires the event directly (from the console) - it fires fine. But if I execute the method, by first calling the initial contract to in turn call the contract that fires the event, the event does not fire.

Is there a way of calling a follow on contract I am missing, or is this something I cannot do by design? The following code describes the problem:

contract EventEmitter{
    event Emit(address addr, string message);

    //this works when I call it directly from the console,ie:
    //emitter.doEmit("blah", {from: "[primary acc]", value: web3.toWei(100, "ether")});
    function doEmit(string message) returns (bool){
        Emit(msg.sender, message);
        return true;
    }
}

contract EventEmitterCaller{
    event TestEvent(string message);

    function callDoEmit(string message) returns (bool){
        EventEmitter emitter = new EventEmitter();
        //always returns false
        //emitterCaller.callDoEmit("blah", {from: "[primary acc]", value: web3.toWei(100, "ether")});
        return emitter.doEmit(message);
    }

}
Sep 25, 2018 in Blockchain by slayer
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1 answer to this question.

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You need to refer to the EventEmitter by its address:

instead of

EventEmitter emitter = new EventEmitter();

do

EventEmitter emitter = EventEmitter(0xef833fea60388efd541b62737c7aa3b59a6d80ef);
answered Sep 25, 2018 by digger
• 26,740 points

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