add mysql convertor to avoid "bytearray" strings from mysql driver

Former-commit-id: 64c85ed8155a7034a145bc99b364c1f68a623def

ippisite/db.sqlite3.REMOVED.git-id

-22fcf51cee85dcecd7c0de2fecdd0852abb2ce71
+2b15950995d163e68e50e2aabf1b4e9a4ff2dfeb
\ No newline at end of file

ippisite/ippidb/management/commands/import_v1_data.py

@@ -9,6 +9,18 @@ from ippidb.models import Bibliography, Protein, Taxonomy, MolecularFunction, \
     Domain, ProteinDomainBoundComplex, ProteinDomainPartnerComplex, Symmetry, Ppi, PpiComplex, Disease, \
     Compound, MDDRCompoundImport, MDDRActivityClass
 
+class MyConverter(mysql.connector.conversion.MySQLConverter):
+
+    def row_to_python(self, row, fields):
+        row = super(MyConverter, self).row_to_python(row, fields)
+
+        def to_unicode(col):
+            if type(col) == bytearray:
+                return col.decode('utf-8')
+            return col
+
+        return[to_unicode(col) for col in row]
+
 class Command(BaseCommand):
 
     help = "Import data from the local v1 database"
@@ -73,7 +85,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
 
 
     def handle(self, *args, **options):
-        conn = mysql.connector.connect(host="localhost",user="root",password="ippidb", database="ippidb")
+        conn = mysql.connector.connect(converter_class=MyConverter, host="localhost", user="root", password="ippidb", database="ippidb")
         cursor = conn.cursor()
         if options['bibliographies']:
             cursor.execute("""SELECT * FROM biblio""")