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I read from many questions (example: How to estimate the cost to call a Smart Contract method?) that web3.eth has a method estimateGas that can provide an estimate of the gas usage of a transaction/function call.

I am trying to get an estimate for calling a function using my Java wrapper class generated by the web3j CLI.

Web3j web3 = Web3j.build(new HttpService(endpoint));
Credentials creds = Credentials.create(privateKey);
DefaultGasProvider gasProvider = new DefaultGasProvider();
MyNFT contract = MyNFT.load(contractAddress, web3, creds, gasProvider);
// I am interested in estimating how much gas the following call will use
TransactionReceipt receipt = contract.mintNFT(recipient, tokenUri).send();

How should I go about doing this in Java? Is there a Java equivalent for estimateGas?

user10931326
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To estimate Gas Price :

public BigInteger estimateGas() throws IOException {

EthGasPrice gas=web3j.ethGasPrice().send();
return gas.getGasPrice();



}

Following code gives total gas used by LATEST block, so that is total is divided by the number of transactions, which gives you average Gas Limit of LATEST block on the chain.

To Estimate Gas Limit:

public BigInteger getGasLimit() throws IOException {
    EthBlock.Block block=web3j.ethGetBlockByNumber(DefaultBlockParameterName.LATEST, false).send().getBlock();
    return block.getGasLimit().divide(new BigInteger(String.valueOf(block.getTransactions().size())));
}

Final Total Gas:

gasPrice multiplied by Gas Limit
Gladiator9120
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  • The web3js function estimateGas calculates how much gas a function call requires. You are calculating the cost, which is another thing. – Ismael Nov 03 '22 at 06:25
  • @Ismael He specifically asked "Java Equivalent", Web3JS is not a Java library. – Gladiator9120 Nov 03 '22 at 11:45
  • The question asks about the java equivalent to web3.eth.estimateGas. It links to an existing answer that uses web3.eth.estimateGas to determine the cost of calling a contract function. – Ismael Nov 03 '22 at 18:17
  • @Ismael If you notice, I have also given a method of estimating the gas, which takes latest block, find the average gas used. Estimating total cost is additional. – Gladiator9120 Nov 04 '22 at 09:24
  • You are calculating the cost using previous block gas limit, BLOCK_GAS_LIMIT * GAS_PRICE. It is not the same as calling web3.eth.estimateGas, which simulates the function call and it returns the exact gas limit required. – Ismael Nov 04 '22 at 14:03