#7190: BooleanField does not return <type: 'bool'>
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Reporter: Jeffrey Froman | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: closed
Component: Database layer | Version: master
(models, ORM) | Resolution: fixed
Severity: Normal | Triage Stage: Accepted
Keywords: BooleanField, type | Needs documentation: 1
Has patch: 1 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Needs tests: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Easy pickings: 0 |
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Changes (by ramiro):
* status: reopened => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
Replying to [comment:12 kirkm@…]:
> MySQL 5.0.3 changed bit fields from being tinyints to being some other
thing (see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/bit-field-
literals.html). Django now sees them as hex strings like '\x01' for b'1'.
As a result, BooleanFields in models no longer work as expected. Setting
a single-bit BooleanField using True and False in django works (the
database gets '\x01' and '\x00' respectively), but reading these back does
not get you a Python bool, but rather the raw string, like '\x00'. I
think we need to tweak the Django code again to handle this case.
Hmm this would mean the tests added in r1290 when fixing #7190:
https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.4.x/tests/regressiontests/model_fields/tests.py#L178
should fail when run against MySQL >= 5.0.3 which I don't think is the
case.
We will need more information about the exact conditions under which you
are seeing this. Bonus points if you can express them in a test case.
But please open another ticket instead of reopening this one.
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