MySQL Connector/Python conversion issue after 8.0.24 (2 replies)

Recently I have just upgraded MySQL Connector/Python to latest 8.0.26, but I found a bug for JSON column conversion issue produced after 8.0.24.

My client platform is MacOS 11.5.2 with brew installed Python 3.9.5, and the server MySQL is Percona Server Ver 5.7.30-33.

The table schema is as simple as possible:
CREATE TABLE `user` (
`id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`data` json NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=69799 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED KEY_BLOCK_SIZE=4;

When I try to fetch one row, the error occurred:
...
.../lib/python3.9/site-packages/mysql/connector/conversion.py", line 589, in _STRING_to_python
return value.decode(self.charset)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

After I downgraded to 8.0.23, everything just works. So I found something related conversion change from 8.0.24 to address "BUG#30416704: Binary columns returned as strings". I think these changes may cause this situation.

And with discovering the change in 8.0.24, I found the column protocol retuned tuple also changed, but in connection_cext.py the `_columns` info is not updated with adding the 8th tuple item.

Currently I resolved this issue with rewriting ConvertClass, is there any idea about this situation?

Thanks.