From 935d520ec9bad2ef86b02106d465043f12dc3095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Vines <mvines@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:51:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: AccountInfo userdata is now never null

---
 web3.js/module.flow.js    | 2 +-
 web3.js/src/connection.js | 8 ++------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/web3.js/module.flow.js b/web3.js/module.flow.js
index 4685f12d68..921c002653 100644
--- a/web3.js/module.flow.js
+++ b/web3.js/module.flow.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ declare module '@solana/web3.js' {
   declare export type AccountInfo = {
     tokens: number,
     programId: PublicKey,
-    userdata: Buffer | null,
+    userdata: Buffer,
   }
 
   declare export type SignatureStatus = 'Confirmed' | 'SignatureNotFound' | 'ProgramRuntimeError' | 'GenericFailure';
diff --git a/web3.js/src/connection.js b/web3.js/src/connection.js
index 14338ba1b4..fd4bef99eb 100644
--- a/web3.js/src/connection.js
+++ b/web3.js/src/connection.js
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ const SendTokensRpcResult = jsonRpcResult('string');
 type AccountInfo = {
   tokens: number,
   programId: PublicKey,
-  userdata: Buffer | null,
+  userdata: Buffer,
 }
 
 /**
@@ -200,14 +200,10 @@ export class Connection {
     const {result} = res;
     assert(typeof result !== 'undefined');
 
-    let userdata = null;
-    if (result.userdata.length > 0) {
-      userdata = Buffer.from(result.userdata);
-    }
     return {
       tokens: result.tokens,
       programId: bs58.encode(result.program_id),
-      userdata,
+      userdata: Buffer.from(result.userdata),
     };
   }