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Error with JSONField and mysql-connector

See original GitHub issue

model code:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=35)
    data_json = JSONField()

makemigrations output


migrations.CreateModel(
    name='MyModel',
    fields=[
        ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
        ('name', models.CharField(max_length=35)),
        ('data_json', JSONField(default=dict)),
])

Error on running migrate


django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: BLOB, TEXT, GEOMETRY or JSON column 'data_json' can't have a default value

Django Version: Django 2.1.2
Database and version used: MySQL 5.7
MySQL driver: mysql-connector-python==8.0.13
Version: Django-MySQL==2.4.1

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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adamchainzcommented, Dec 24, 2018

Btw I have a plan to get Django to support pymysql, which I have done unofficially on a few projects and it’s worked fine (being a drop-in replacement for mysqlclient ex. MySQLdb)

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adamchainzcommented, Apr 26, 2020

Closing due to age.