When an error is thrown during a transaction the object error.receipt is undefined.

[Muhammad-Altabba]

In 1.x, the object error.receipt used to contain the receipt. But it is no longer at 4.x.
This for example cause some tests to fail at Truffle when migrating to 4.x. Like this one:
https://github.com/nazarhussain/truffle/blob/nh/web3-4x-upgrade/packages/debugger/test/stacktrace.js

try {
  await instance.run(0); //this will throw because of the revert
} catch (error) {
  console.log(error);
  // throws: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'transactionHash')
  txHash = error.receipt.transactionHash; 
}

[jdevcs]

This seems issue with backend ganache as exception happens without using 4.x even:

If you deploy stackTrace contract on ganache node and do following rpc:

curl --location --request POST 'HTTP://127.0.0.1:7545' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": "81b0bd09-c2c3-4119-8eae-5e089cdea101",
    "method": "eth_estimateGas",
    "params": [
        {
            "from": "0xDE96CA0CA62A886848CBdEa95277a3Bac8A918B3",
            "to": "0xA97f34e2ab6D0823Fc8EE6Cef356550f70dF779C",
            "data": "0xa444f5e90000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
        },
        "latest"
    ]
}'

ganache throws error:

{
    "id": "81b0bd09-c2c3-4119-8eae-5e089cdea101",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "error": {
        "message": "VM Exception while processing transaction: revert requirement failed",
        "stack": "RuntimeError: VM Exception while processing transaction: revert requirement failed\n    at exactimate (/tmp/.mount_ganachrJNAFx/resources/static/node/node_modules/ganache/dist/node/1.js:2:182136)",
        "code": -32000,
        "name": "RuntimeError",
        "data": {
            "hash": null,
            "programCounter": 1676,
            "result": "0x08c379a000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000012726571756972656d656e74206661696c65640000000000000000000000000000",
            "reason": "requirement failed",
            "message": "revert"
        }
    }
}

Above exception happens when running test, and at line https://github.com/nazarhussain/truffle/blob/nh/web3-4x-upgrade/packages/debugger/test/stacktrace.js#L198 there is internal estimate_gas call here:
https://github.com/nazarhussain/truffle/blob/nh/web3-4x-upgrade/packages/contract/lib/execute.js#L33 that throws above error before tx execution so there is no tx receipt available.

[Muhammad-Altabba]

Thanks @jdevcs for sharing the findings,
Yes, the transaction is expected to fail when executed at Ganache. As it is a calling to a function that will revert with the message "requirement failed". This is the base of the test.
But I do not know if the estimateGas was not throwing with version 1.x. This is, I think, needs to be investigated.

[jdevcs]

With above scenario 1.x also throws same error, this error is happening independent of lib.

[jdevcs]

created issue in ganache for this: trufflesuite/ganache#4526

[jdevcs]

So above exception happens with 1.x, 4.x, or even without web3.js lib as mentioned above.

1. @Muhammad-Altabba if you rebase your branch with truffle dev there is default gas being passed . so Solution: rebase your branch for this/or update this test.

2. After that 4.x by default attempts to eth_call transaction before sending for looking any revert first, in this case tx will never be mined and you will not get tx.receipt, so pass { checkRevertBeforeSending: false } in options to sendTransaction for above await instance.run(0);

3. Finally when tx is send in tests of this file, in case of ganache provider injected, 4.x cannot subscribe due to following error:

"TypeError: provider.supportsSubscriptions is not a function"

at this line.

with above fixes I am locally able to get err.receipt.transactionHash in case of error:

{
  innerError: undefined,
  name: "TransactionRevertedWithoutReasonError",
  receipt: {
    transactionHash: "0xc17b039b6dc405d9be0f9a4fd3380e160d6cfaed2f586ff976c6fb31ad8d7d1d",
    transactionIndex: 0n,
    blockNumber: 5n,
    blockHash: "0x36266fb0721510a59c4903e0a09cdc1190a9223858d86db9e0febf05352802a6",
    from: "0xde96ca0ca62a886848cbdea95277a3bac8a918b3",
    to: "0xe3e3b13426f1d19e2dd691b3447f5db5d52871e8",
    cumulativeGasUsed: 34241n,
    gasUsed: 34241n,
    logs: [
    ],
    logsBloom: "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    status: 0n,
    effectiveGasPrice: 2000000000n,
    type: 0n,
    rawLogs: [
    ],
  },
  code: 405,
}

[Muhammad-Altabba]

Many thanks @jdevcs for sharing.
I will fix the error "TypeError: provider.supportsSubscriptions is not a function" here: #6439

[Muhammad-Altabba]

Changes applied here: trufflesuite/truffle@70250d8
Thanks @jdevcs ,