Boolean attribute for Waterline model - node.js

Question

I have a MySQL database and a Waterline model for a fairly simple record: Todo. It's straight-forward as we're using it for proof-of-concept for a Sails.js API.
CREATE TABLE `Todo` (
`ID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`TodoItem` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
`Completed` bit(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT b'0',
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=2 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COMMENT=' ';
I have the model set up in this way:
module.exports = {
connection: 'companyMySql',
tableName: 'Todo',
attributes: {
ID: {
type: 'integer',
autoIncrement: true,
primaryKey: true
},
TodoItem: {
type: 'string',
required: true
},
Completed: {
type: 'boolean',
defaultsTo: 'false',
size: 1,
boolean: true
}
},
autoCreatedAt: false,
autoUpdatedAt: false,
autoPK: false
};
The problem I'm having is that the auto-created API for Todo creates a bunch of extra cruft in the 'Completed' field, and I'm trying to find out how I remove it. I'm expecting a boolean value, but I could definitely work with 0/1, or string literals, but that's not what I'm getting. I've tried various validation on the field, like 'min: 0, max: 1', but that has not changed the result.
Here is the results of a retrieval of a single record:
{
"ID": 1,
"TodoItem": "Create Todo API",
"Completed": {
"0": 1,
"length": 1,
"parent": [
100,
0,
0,
0,
3,
83,
69,
76,
69,
67,
96,
46,
96,
73,
68,
96,
44,
32,
96,
116,
111,
100,
111,
96,
// This continues on for quite some time
],
"offset": 2128 // This value increases each time I call a GET until it gets to ~8000, then it resets to ~500
}
}
So does anyone have any idea on what I can do to get a straight-forward boolean value out of this?

Answer 1

After some further testing, I was able to get a boolean value to work as expected by using TINYINT(1) for my column datatype. Once I did that, this model worked as I expected it to:
Completed: {
type: 'boolean',
defaultsTo: false,
boolean: true
}
This still doesn't seem ideal, but it was a solution for my purposes.