Fetching bytea into []byte throws parse error

[roobre]

Kallax seems to throw an error when fetching a model with a field of type []byte, tagged as sqltype:"bytea":

type Awesome struct {
        kallax.Model `table:"awesome"`
        Data []byte  `sqltype:"bytea"`
}

2017/07/28 18:46:45 2 : sql: Scan error on column index 7: kallax: unable to parse array; expected '{' at offset 0

It seems like it's trying to decode the field somehow, instead of blindly copy the byte array.

I'm not sure if this is the correct way of modelling binary blobs. If it's not, some hints on how to do it properly would be appreciated.

[erizocosmico]

Thanks for reporting this!

Yes, all slices and arrays try to scan a postgres array type. That said, kallax should be smart enough to not do that in the case of []byte. In fact, I don't think it makes sense to have a []byte that's not a bytea, since it's being treated right now as a smallint[].

We'll probably special-case []byte to always be bytea and avoid the array scanning.