useContractEvent add queryFilter parameter

[jellohouse]

I'm trying to read old events from a smart contract using the useContractEvent hook.

But there is no queryFilter parameter so I cannot set which block number range I want it to search from...

[xzilja]

We use https://wagmi.sh/docs/hooks/useContractEvent under the hood for this and as of now it doesn't look like you can read old events. I think intention here is to read "old" data from contract.

I'll flag this as feature-request and will check if it is achievable once we release stable version.

[jellohouse]

Actually for this I think it should be a new hook. Because useContractEvent is really for subscribing to live events (which is why we provide it a callback function)

Ideally I think this should be a new hook like usePastEvents or something like that in which you could provide optional parameters like the block numbers from which to read, and filter parameters, etc.

[xzilja]

We have moved over to using wagmi fully for web3modal (https://wagmi.sh) so this could now become a feature request in their lib.