From 5427d1b22bcdf10386d02e69377d1b24e57b775a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Montoya <dsmontoyam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:25:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Added support for custom string types.

---
 statement.go      |  2 ++
 statement_test.go | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 statement_test.go

diff --git a/statement.go b/statement.go
index ae223507f..628174b64 100644
--- a/statement.go
+++ b/statement.go
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ func (c converter) ConvertValue(v interface{}) (driver.Value, error) {
 		return int64(u64), nil
 	case reflect.Float32, reflect.Float64:
 		return rv.Float(), nil
+	case reflect.String:
+		return rv.String(), nil
 	}
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("unsupported type %T, a %s", v, rv.Kind())
 }
diff --git a/statement_test.go b/statement_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..63c9ce2be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/statement_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package mysql
+
+import "testing"
+
+type customString string
+
+func TestConvertValueCustomTypes(t *testing.T) {
+	var cstr customString = "string"
+	c := converter{}
+	if _, err := c.ConvertValue(cstr); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("custom string type should be valid")
+	}
+}

From d31d5ff3e41f37c32dc1f76fe6dc0ab9181a7c28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Montoya <dsmontoyam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:48:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Add author name

---
 AUTHORS | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ac36be9a7..ca6a1daeb 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Asta Xie <xiemengjun at gmail.com>
 Bulat Gaifullin <gaifullinbf at gmail.com>
 Carlos Nieto <jose.carlos at menteslibres.net>
 Chris Moos <chris at tech9computers.com>
+Daniel Montoya <dsmontoyam at gmail.com>
 Daniel Nichter <nil at codenode.com>
 Daniël van Eeden <git at myname.nl>
 Dave Protasowski <dprotaso at gmail.com>

From 661c2e06aed33ffcfbefe190c339eb49172acd38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Montoya <dsmontoyam@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:49:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Added license header

---
 statement_test.go | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/statement_test.go b/statement_test.go
index 63c9ce2be..8de4a8b26 100644
--- a/statement_test.go
+++ b/statement_test.go
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+// Go MySQL Driver - A MySQL-Driver for Go's database/sql package
+//
+// Copyright 2017 The Go-MySQL-Driver Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
+// You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
 package mysql
 
 import "testing"

From db6af9049fa84406c76edaf472a6b50f7eff1cc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Montoya <dsmontoyam@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 23:03:08 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Added a newline to force a commit.

---
 statement_test.go | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/statement_test.go b/statement_test.go
index 8de4a8b26..0f7f06e7b 100644
--- a/statement_test.go
+++ b/statement_test.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ type customString string
 func TestConvertValueCustomTypes(t *testing.T) {
 	var cstr customString = "string"
 	c := converter{}
+  
 	if _, err := c.ConvertValue(cstr); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("custom string type should be valid")
 	}

From 9292b24955e39639be69c5fb5242cc7b2c2367e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Montoya <dsmontoyam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:25:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Remove newline.

---
 statement_test.go | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/statement_test.go b/statement_test.go
index 0f7f06e7b..8de4a8b26 100644
--- a/statement_test.go
+++ b/statement_test.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ type customString string
 func TestConvertValueCustomTypes(t *testing.T) {
 	var cstr customString = "string"
 	c := converter{}
-  
 	if _, err := c.ConvertValue(cstr); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("custom string type should be valid")
 	}