Django queryset objects return None instead of 0 even though the database has 0 stored as the field value

Question

I encountered a problem when I started using mysql-connector/python instead of mysqlclient for my Django project. Suddenly values stored as 0 in the database is turned to "None" in the resulting queryset, here's an example.

queryset = Invoices.objects.all().filter(sold=0)
print(queryset[0].sold)  # Prints "None"

Where the same statement would have printed 0 with mysqlclient.

Is there a good way to fix this? I haven't gotten mysqlclient to work well with my current setup and would rather not have to track down all the calls depending on a 0-value and restructure it to handle Nonetypes.

Edit with the model in question:

from django.db import models
from authentication.models import Account, SubUser


class Invoices(models.Model):
    rating = models.CharField(max_length=5, null=True)
    serial = models.CharField(max_length=60, null=False)
    amount = models.CharField(max_length=60, null=False)
    debtor = models.CharField(max_length=128, null=False)
    debtorname = models.CharField(max_length=128, null=False)
    seller = models.ForeignKey(Account, on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING, related_name='soldinvoices', null=False)
    dateout = models.CharField(max_length=256, null=False)
    expiration = models.CharField(max_length=256, null=False)
    buyer = models.ForeignKey(Account, on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING, related_name='boughtinvoices', null=True)
    fid = models.CharField(max_length=256, null=False)
    filepath = models.CharField(max_length=256, null=False)
    approved = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    paid = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    sold = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, null=False)
    subseller = models.ForeignKey(SubUser, null=True, on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
    askingprice = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True)

Sold, Paid, and Approved all come back as None, even though they can be queried using 0 as a value.

Additional example:

my_foo = Foo(bar=0)
my_foo.save()
print(my_foo.bar)  # prints 0

Separate queries using mysql-connector-python yields 0 as expected in the queryset.

Django version 2.0.3.0, mysql-connector-python version 8.0.12.

Answer 1

If anyone is still running into this problem (as I did), I found a solution that worked for me. In the database configuration in the settings.py file, add the following option:

'OPTIONS': {'use_pure': True }

This resolved the problem for me. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

pass null argument to all those fields.