You must provide the json interface of the contract when instantiating a contract object

[jameszou707]

when i try to get a contract object with web3 from Rinkelby net , here comes a error out :

error msg: Error: You must provide the json interface of the contract when instantiating a contract object.

[jameszou707]

Solution: then we found if we change the web3 version from 1.0.0-beta.36 back to 1.0.0-beta.35 , the bug disappeared：

npm install --save web3@1.0.0-beta.35

[Aniket-Engg]

Possible reason of throwing error are : Either ABI is not provided or ABI is not an array as per the code below.

if(!jsonInterface || !(Array.isArray(jsonInterface))) {
        throw new Error('You must provide the json interface of the contract when instantiating a contract object.');
    }

And this has not changed from beta.35 to beta.36

[nivida]

I'm closing this issue because it seems like it isn't an issue of web3.

[elvioorg]

when i try to get a contract object with web3 from Rinkelby net , here comes a error out :

error msg: Error: You must provide the json interface of the contract when instantiating a contract object.

[GregTheGreek]

Please open a new issue