How to specify options for Connection.sendTransaction() for VersionedTransaction?

Question

I'm trying to specify skipPreflight in sendTransaction method the next way:

await connection.sendTransaction(transaction, {
        skipPreflight: true,
});

where transaction is VersionedTransaction. According to @solana/web3.js docs, in versioned transaction case this function takes only 2 args, where the first is VersionedTransaction and the second are options.

However, looking at a method realization code, in case of versioned transaction sendTransaction method passes to sendRawTransaction "options" argument, which is the third and because is not defined (I passed only 2 args according to docs), rather than passing the second "signersOrOptions", which I specified to contain options.

So how to pass options to sendTransaction method in VersionedTransaction case?

Answer 1

You can instead call sendRawTransaction directly.

await connection.sendRawTransaction(transaction.serialize(),
        { skipPreflight: true }
)

Of course, the fundamental solution to getting sendTransaction to work is to fix the bug (and send the PR fix) as mentioned in the comments section.