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javascript

Tolerim

a day ago

I require assistance as I am receiving a TypeError stating that EnergyTrading.buy() is not a function.

Hello everyone,

I need your help with an error message that I received while deploying EnergyTrading to the address 0x5FbDB2315678afecb367f032d93F642f64180aa3. The error message I received is:

TypeError: EnergyTrading.buy is not a function
at main (/home/user/folder/hardhat-simple-storage-fcc/scripts/deploy.js:10:43)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:65:3)
at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:528:9)
at processTimers (node:internal/timers:502:7)

Could you please explain why the function EnergyTrading.buy is not working? Your help would be appreciated.

Answers(1)

Accepted Answer

Based on the error message, it looks like the EnergyTrading object does not have a method buy. This could be due to a few reasons: 1. The method buy is not defined in the code. 2. The method buy is defined, but it is not a property of EnergyTrading. 3. The method buy is defined as a property of EnergyTrading, but it is not a function. To fix this issue, you should check the code where the EnergyTrading object is defined and make sure that the buy method is defined correctly and assigned as a property of EnergyTrading, like this:

const EnergyTrading = {
  buy: function() {
    // code to execute when buy method is called
  }
}

Alternatively, if the buy method is defined in a separate module, you may need to import it and assign it as a property of EnergyTrading, like this:

import { buy } from './energy-trading.js'

const EnergyTrading = {
  buy: buy
}

This assumes that the energy-trading.js module exports a function named buy.