getChainId

Name: viem-go
Author: viem-go

Returns the chain ID of the current network

Import

Import the public actions package so you can call this action.

import "github.com/ChefBingbong/viem-go/actions/public"

Usage

An example showing how to construct a public client and query the current chain ID.

import (
  "context"
  "log"

  "github.com/ChefBingbong/viem-go/actions/public"
  "github.com/ChefBingbong/viem-go/client"
  "github.com/ChefBingbong/viem-go/client/transport"
  "github.com/ChefBingbong/viem-go/chain/definitions"
)

ctx := context.Background()

publicClient, err := client.CreatePublicClient(client.PublicClientConfig{
  Chain:     definitions.Mainnet,
  Transport: transport.HTTP("https://eth.llamarpc.com"),
})
if err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err)
}
defer func() { _ = publicClient.Close() }()

chainID, err := public.GetChainID(ctx, publicClient)
if err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Printf("Chain ID: %d", chainID)

Returns

uint64

The chain ID of the current network.

Parameters

This action takes no parameters.

JSON-RPC Method

Underlying JSON-RPC method used by this action.

eth_chainId