Anchor IDL address missing from json

Question

Is it just me or did the "metadata": {"address: Pubkey} key-value pair from the generated json disappear when running anchor build?

Answer 1

"metadata": {"address": "pubKey"} may disappear when running anchor build you will get it back once you run anchor deploy.

Answer 2

Running anchor build will remove the "metadata": {"address: Pubkey} from the bridge_program.json.

Running anchor test will under the hood build and deploy your program, so it will remove the field from bridge_program.json. If you want to skip deployment when running anchor test you will need to pass --skip-deployment and --skip-build.

anchor test --skip-build --skip-deploy   

Writing this as it can be a fix of another related problem.

Answer 3

The issue was in my tests where I forgot to correctly rename the program declaration after renaming it

// forgot to change
const program = anchor.workspace.OlgProgramName as Program<OlgProgramName>;

// to
const program = anchor.workspace.NewProgramName as Program<NewProgramName>;