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I know that we have require_auth to check for permission, but I'm looking for something like is_valid_account to check if the account exists and is active in the chain.
Do we have anything like that? I tried to use eosio.token contract to transfer tokens to a non-existing account and it just allowed me to do so.
Thank you!
I found it in Dawn 4.0 release, it's simply is_account(account_name)
Check out the eosio.token new contract in transfer action, release: https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/blob/dawn-v4.0.0/contracts/eosio.token/eosio.token.cpp#L76
eosio_assert( is_account( to ), "to account does not exist");
There's a new intrinsic in the slim branch, but isn't declared yet in a header.
extern "C" int64_t get_account_creation_date(account_name account);
It looks like this function will fail if the account doesn't exist.
require_recipientand the account does not exist the action will fail... but not sure if it's the best practice because doing that we always "notify" the recipient account