Cosmos-sdk: Account should be created on incoming IBC transactions

[jackzampolin]

If the account doesn't exist, currently an IBC transfer fails. The expected behavior is that the account is created and the funds are transferred.

[jackzampolin]

to test this, send funds from alice@chainA to bob@chainB, then from bob@chainB to charlie@chainA. Charlie's address doesn't have an associated account on chainA

[cwgoes]

Hmm. I think this is probably reasonable behaviour in most cases, as long as the address is valid. I do wonder if there might be cases where you (the sender) specifically wanted to transfer to an existing account, though - maybe it should be an option (boolean) on the packet?

[cwgoes]

Decided against an option for now. Users will just need to be careful not to mis-enter addresses.

[cwgoes]

What error does this fail with, precisely? Reading the code it seems like it should already work this way but I must be missing something.

[jackzampolin]

I don't think this is actually an issue. I'm unable to reproduce with current code. Closing.