State

Accounts

Accounts contain authentication information for a uniquely identified external user of an SDK blockchain, including public key, address, and account number / sequence number for replay protection. For efficiency, since account balances must also be fetched to pay fees, account structs also store the balance of a user as sdk.Coins.

Accounts are exposed externally as an interface, and stored internally as either a base account or vesting account. Module clients wishing to add more account types may do so.

• 0x01 | Address -> ProtocolBuffer(account)

Account Interface

The account interface exposes methods to read and write standard account information. Note that all of these methods operate on an account struct confirming to the interface - in order to write the account to the store, the account keeper will need to be used.

Copy // AccountI is an interface used to store coins at a given address within state. // It presumes a notion of sequence numbers for replay protection, // a notion of account numbers for replay protection for previously pruned accounts, // and a pubkey for authentication purposes. // // Many complex conditions can be used in the concrete struct which implements AccountI. type AccountI interface { proto.Message GetAddress() sdk.AccAddress SetAddress(sdk.AccAddress) error // errors if already set. GetPubKey() crypto.PubKey // can return nil. SetPubKey(crypto.PubKey) error GetAccountNumber() uint64 SetAccountNumber(uint64) error GetSequence() uint64 SetSequence(uint64) error // Ensure that account implements stringer String() string }

Base Account

A base account is the simplest and most common account type, which just stores all requisite fields directly in a struct.

Copy // BaseAccount defines a base account type. It contains all the necessary fields // for basic account functionality. Any custom account type should extend this // type for additional functionality (e.g. vesting). message BaseAccount { string address = 1; google.protobuf.Any pub_key = 2; uint64 account_number = 3; uint64 sequence = 4; }

Vesting Account

See Vesting.