`text` fields are occasionally corrupted

I’m storing JSON in a text column in my MySQL database. Occasionally, this JSON is corrupted during the insert, and seems to truncate to only a few characters. This has happened to 4 records out of 576.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

[janmeier]

Perhaps try setting the charset in your connection options, passed to node-mysql

new Sequelize(..., {
  dialectOptions: {
    charset: 'utf8mb4'
  }
});

[janmeier]

Hmm, utf8mb4 should be able to store all chars though … 😄

There’s no magic way to deal with it now, but hopefully there will be soon, once I get the rewrite of data-types done. That would allow you to create a custom stringify function for text that could convert the text to another encoding befeore inserting.