Error: The current provider doesn't support subscriptions: MetamaskInpageProvider (events)

[coryl]

I'm trying to listen to events with web3:

  incrementEvent = existingContract.events.allEvents(function(error, event){
                  if (error) console.log(error);
                  console.log("event is: " + event);
                })

Console logs:

Error: The current provider doesn't support subscriptions: MetamaskInpageProvider
    at Subscription.subscribe (bundle.js:45443)
    at Contract._on (bundle.js:48777)
    at (index):48
    at tryCatcher (bundle.js:44235)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (bundle.js:42267)
    at Promise._settlePromise (bundle.js:42325)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (bundle.js:42370)
    at Promise._settlePromises (bundle.js:42453)
    at bundle.js:39334
    at MutationObserver.<anonymous> (bundle.js:43502)
(index):50 event is: null

Any ideas? Does metamask not support events? Thanks

[danfinlay]

web3 1.0 requires a websocket provider, which we don't have yet.

Closing as a duplicate of #2350.

[elie222]

Any idea when this will be supported?

[danfinlay]

No, but we know it's very desired. Just balancing important issues, sorry. Follow issue #2350, not this one, please.