returns null on new web3.eth.Contract(abi).deploy()

[rstormsf]

"web3": "^1.0.0-beta.24"

let Web3 = require('web3')
let web3 = new Web3();
let abi = [{"inputs":[],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"constructor"}];
let contract = new web3.eth.Contract(abi);
let deploy = contract.deploy(); // supposed to return estimateGas, send, encodeABI
//return null

why?

[rstormsf]

Looks like I had to do this:

contract.options.data = {}
let deploy = contract.deploy();

[rstormsf]

so, without setting actual bytecode, I can't estimateGas/encodeABI which defeats the purpose.

[rstormsf]

I was stupid, of course you have to supply data, what I was thinking?

[klivin]

I was stupid and did the same thing, @rstormsf. Would be nice for missing bytecode to throw an exception rather than return null...

[x5engine]

2020 I was dumb and did it without the bytecode but it seems the fault of the docs not telling you must add it!

also make you sure you add 0x before a bytecode string