Remove web3Factory.create and remove dev-tools dependency on sol-cov

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/packages/subproviders/src/utils/subprovider_utils.ts b/packages/subproviders/src/utils/subprovider_utils.ts
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+++ b/packages/subproviders/src/utils/subprovider_utils.ts
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+import ProviderEngine = require('web3-provider-engine');
+
+import { Subprovider } from '../subproviders/subprovider';
+
+/**
+ * Prepends a subprovider to a provider
+ * @param provider    Given provider
+ * @param subprovider Subprovider to prepend
+ */
+export function prependSubprovider(provider: ProviderEngine, subprovider: Subprovider): void {
+    subprovider.setEngine(provider);
+    (provider as any)._providers = [subprovider, ...(provider as any)._providers];
+}