Calling didManager does not raise a helpful error if registry is missing from agent config

[emilaukner]

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Describe the bug
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When attempting to add a key to a DID using agent.didManagerAddKey(args: IDIDManagerAddKeyArgs) an error was returned:

Error creating key: Error: could not decode result data (value="0x", info={ "method": "identityOwner", "signature": "identityOwner(address)" }, code=BAD_DATA, version=6.13.5)
    at makeError (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/utils/errors.js:129:21)
    at assert (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/utils/errors.js:149:15)
    at Interface.decodeFunctionResult (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/abi/interface.js:780:31)
    at staticCallResult (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:254:35)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async staticCall (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:219:24)
    at async Proxy.identityOwner (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:259:20)
    at async EthrDIDProvider.addKey (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/@veramo/did-provider-ethr/build/ethr-did-provider.js:210:28)
    at async DIDManager.didManagerAddKey (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/@veramo/did-manager/build/id-manager.js:154:24)
    at async Agent.execute (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/@veramo/core/build/agent.js:159:24) {
  code: 'BAD_DATA',
  value: '0x',
  info: { method: 'identityOwner', signature: 'identityOwner(address)' },
  shortMessage: 'could not decode result data'
}

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. agent setup:

import {
  createAgent,
  IDIDManager,
  IResolver,
  IDataStore,
  IDataStoreORM,
  IKeyManager,
  ICredentialPlugin,
} from '@veramo/core';

import { DIDManager } from '@veramo/did-manager';
import { EthrDIDProvider } from '@veramo/did-provider-ethr';
import { KeyDIDProvider } from '@veramo/did-provider-key';
import { KeyManager } from '@veramo/key-manager';
import { KeyManagementSystem, SecretBox } from '@veramo/kms-local';
import { CredentialPlugin } from '@veramo/credential-w3c';
import { DIDResolverPlugin } from '@veramo/did-resolver';
import { Resolver } from 'did-resolver';
import { getResolver as ethrDidResolver } from 'ethr-did-resolver';
import { getResolver as keyDidResolver } from 'key-did-resolver';
import { getResolver as webDidResolver } from 'web-did-resolver';
import { Entities, KeyStore, DIDStore, PrivateKeyStore, migrations } from '@veramo/data-store';
import { DataSource } from 'typeorm';
import { DIDComm, IDIDComm } from '@veramo/did-comm';
import { CredentialIssuerLD, LdDefaultContexts, VeramoEd25519Signature2020 } from '@veramo/credential-ld';
import {
  VeramoEd25519Signature2018,
  VeramoEcdsaSecp256k1RecoverySignature2020,
  VeramoJsonWebSignature2020,
} from "@veramo/credential-ld";

const DATABASE_FILE = 'database.sqlite';
const INFURA_PROJECT_ID = process.env.INFURA_PROJECT_ID || 'Your_INFURA_PROJECT_ID';
const KMS_SECRET_KEY = process.env.KMS_SECRET_KEY || 'Create_A_Random_Key';

// Database setup
const dbConnection = new DataSource({
  type: 'sqlite',
  database: DATABASE_FILE,
  synchronize: false,
  migrations,
  migrationsRun: true,
  logging: ['error', 'info', 'warn'],
  entities: Entities,
}).initialize();

export const issuerAgent = createAgent<
  IDIDManager & IKeyManager & IDataStore & IDataStoreORM & IResolver & ICredentialPlugin & IDIDComm
>({
  plugins: [
    new KeyManager({
      store: new KeyStore(await dbConnection),
      kms: {
        local: new KeyManagementSystem(new PrivateKeyStore(await dbConnection, new SecretBox(KMS_SECRET_KEY))),
      },
    }),
    new DIDManager({
      store: new DIDStore(await dbConnection),
      defaultProvider: 'did:ethr:sepolia',
      providers: {
        'did:ethr:sepolia': new EthrDIDProvider({
          defaultKms: 'local',
          network: 'sepolia',
          rpcUrl: `https://sepolia.infura.io/v3/${INFURA_PROJECT_ID}`,
        }),
        'did:key': new KeyDIDProvider({ defaultKms: 'local' }),
      },
    }),
    new DIDResolverPlugin({
      resolver: new Resolver({
        ...ethrDidResolver({ infuraProjectId: INFURA_PROJECT_ID }),
        ...keyDidResolver(),
        ...webDidResolver(),
      }),
    }),
    new CredentialPlugin(),
    new DIDComm(),
  ],
});

2. Code i tried to run to add key to default DID (DID must be managed by agent):

await agent.keyManagerCreate({ type: 'X25519', kms: 'local' }).then(async (key) => {
  console.log('Key created:', key)
  await agent.didManagerAddKey({ did: 'did:ethr:sepolia:0x123abc-mydid', key: key })
}).catch((error) => {
  console.error('Error creating key:', error)
})

Observed behaviour
The error was returned as described earlier, which was difficult to understand, even when trying to go down in the stack trace.

Expected behaviour
I expected an error message which informed me more about what the issue was. I asked for help on the Veramo Discord server in the support channel and was suggested to add registry: "addressForSepoliaEthereumDIDRegistry" which resolved the error. The expected behaviour would then be that the error alerted me of the missing registry or something similar.

Details
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Stacktrace again:

Error creating key: Error: could not decode result data (value="0x", info={ "method": "identityOwner", "signature": "identityOwner(address)" }, code=BAD_DATA, version=6.13.5)
    at makeError (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/utils/errors.js:129:21)
    at assert (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/utils/errors.js:149:15)
    at Interface.decodeFunctionResult (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/abi/interface.js:780:31)
    at staticCallResult (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:254:35)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async staticCall (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:219:24)
    at async Proxy.identityOwner (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/ethers/lib.commonjs/contract/contract.js:259:20)
    at async EthrDIDProvider.addKey (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/@veramo/did-provider-ethr/build/ethr-did-provider.js:210:28)
    at async DIDManager.didManagerAddKey (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/@veramo/did-manager/build/id-manager.js:154:24)
    at async Agent.execute (/homeDir/userDir/my-repo/node_modules/@veramo/core/build/agent.js:159:24) {
  code: 'BAD_DATA',
  value: '0x',
  info: { method: 'identityOwner', signature: 'identityOwner(address)' },
  shortMessage: 'could not decode result data'
}

Additional context
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Versions (please complete the following information):

• Veramo: 6.0.0
• Browser: Not in browser
• Node Version: 20.18