Question

I just migrated my django application from sqlite3 to mysql 5.1.41. I have a charfield in a model defined like this:

class HostData(models.Model):
  Host = models.CharField(max_length=50, null=True)
  HostStatus = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True)
  Alarm = models.BooleanField()

Everything works the same except HostStatus, which usually returns a string like “Up, waiting”. In mysql, however, it is blank. I created my table with character set to utf-8. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The issue was the way I was assigning the value to the model. I dont know why it worked well in sqlite, but it was bad coding anyways. This is what I was doing:

myarray = stdout_ssh
myobject = test.object.get(id=3)
myobject.Host = stdout_ssh[0]
myobject.HostStatus = status
status = stdout_ssh[1]
myobject.Alarm = False
myobject.save()

I changed this to:

myarray = stdout_ssh
myobject = test.object.get(id=3)
myobject.Host = stdout_ssh[0]
myobject.HostStatus = stdout_ssh[1]
myobject.Alarm = False
myobject.save()

And everything was ok.