From 6d7b1664c686b5bbb04dc678995b15d8aac66e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Federico Kunze <31522760+fedekunze@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 11:58:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] codec: fix account retrieval (#284)

---
 codec/codec.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/codec/codec.go b/codec/codec.go
index f9215a05..151bed26 100644
--- a/codec/codec.go
+++ b/codec/codec.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/module"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth"
+	authclient "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth/client"
 	authexported "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth/exported"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth/vesting"
 
@@ -67,7 +68,6 @@ func (c *Codec) UnmarshalAccountJSON(bz []byte) (authexported.Account, error) {
 	return acc.GetAccount(), nil
 }
 
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // MakeCodec registers the necessary types and interfaces for an sdk.App. This
 // codec is provided to all the modules the application depends on.
 //
@@ -84,5 +84,9 @@ func MakeCodec(bm module.BasicManager) *codec.Codec {
 	eminttypes.RegisterCodec(cdc)
 	keyring.RegisterCodec(cdc) // temporary. Used to register keyring.Info
 
+	// since auth client doesn't use the ethermint account type, we need to set
+	// our codec instead.
+	authclient.Codec = NewAppCodec(cdc)
+
 	return cdc
 }