Demonstrates seeding account state directly with SetAccount, without executing
transactions. This is significantly faster than airdropping + funding through
the runtime when you need many accounts ready for a test.
Basic Account Setup
package mytestimport ("testing"litesvm "github.com/LiteSVM/litesvm-go"solana "github.com/gagliardetto/solana-go")func TestBasicAccountSetup(t *testing.T) {svm, err := litesvm.New()if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}defer svm.Close()// Calculate minimum balance for rent exemption.accountData := []byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}minBalance, err := svm.MinimumBalanceForRentExemption(len(accountData))if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}t.Logf("minimum balance for %d bytes: %d lamports", len(accountData), minBalance)// Owner program (system program in this trivial example).owner := solana.SystemProgramIDtestAddr := solana.NewWallet().PublicKey()// Build the account handle, then store it.acct, err := litesvm.NewAccount(minBalance, accountData, owner, false, 0)if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}defer acct.Close()if err := svm.SetAccount(testAddr, acct); err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}t.Log("account state set successfully")// Retrieve the account back.retrieved := svm.GetAccount(testAddr)if retrieved == nil {t.Fatal("expected account to exist")}defer retrieved.Close()t.Logf(" address: %s", testAddr)t.Logf(" lamports: %d", retrieved.Lamports())t.Logf(" owner: %s", retrieved.Owner())t.Logf(" executable: %v", retrieved.Executable())t.Logf(" data: %v", retrieved.Data())// Or just read the balance.bal, _, err := svm.Balance(testAddr)if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}t.Logf("balance: %d lamports", bal)}
Setting Up Multiple Accounts
func TestMultipleAccounts(t *testing.T) {svm, err := litesvm.New()if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}defer svm.Close()owner := solana.SystemProgramID// Set up 5 accounts with different data payloads.addrs := make([]solana.PublicKey, 5)for i := range addrs {addrs[i] = solana.NewWallet().PublicKey()data := []byte{byte(i), byte(i + 1), byte(i + 2)}rent, err := svm.MinimumBalanceForRentExemption(len(data))if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}acct, err := litesvm.NewAccount(rent, data, owner, false, 0)if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}if err := svm.SetAccount(addrs[i], acct); err != nil {acct.Close()t.Fatal(err)}acct.Close()t.Logf("account %d: %s", i, addrs[i])}// Verify each account.for i, addr := range addrs {a := svm.GetAccount(addr)if a == nil {t.Fatalf("account %d missing", i)}t.Logf(" account %d: %d lamports, data[0]=%d", i, a.Lamports(), a.Data()[0])a.Close()}}
Program Data Account Setup
Set up a program-owned data account by serializing your struct layout into the
account data. This snippet additionally imports encoding/binary:
import "encoding/binary"func TestProgramDataAccount(t *testing.T) {svm, err := litesvm.New()if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}defer svm.Close()programID := solana.NewWallet().PublicKey()dataAddr := solana.NewWallet().PublicKey()// Example layout: [u8 discriminator, u64 counter, 32-byte owner pubkey]data := make([]byte, 1+8+32)data[0] = 0x01 // discriminatorbinary.LittleEndian.PutUint64(data[1:9], 100) // counter// copy(data[9:], ownerPubkey[:]) // ownerrent, err := svm.MinimumBalanceForRentExemption(len(data))if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}acct, err := litesvm.NewAccount(rent, data, programID, false, 0)if err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}defer acct.Close()if err := svm.SetAccount(dataAddr, acct); err != nil {t.Fatal(err)}t.Logf("program data account set up: %s", dataAddr)}
SetAccount is faster than executing transactions for bulk account setup, and
keeps your test code focused on the behavior being tested rather than the
plumbing to construct state.
Key Points
- Direct state -
SetAccountwrites account state without going through the runtime. - Rent exemption - use
MinimumBalanceForRentExemptionto compute lamports before constructing the account. - Ownership -
NewAccountreturns a handle you still own. The SVM keeps its own copy afterSetAccount; close yours when done. - Verification - use
GetAccountto read back into a handle, orBalancefor a lamports-only check.
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