From ebfe5dbbea429584b0cb01af1c0a0a19a428ee34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmet Sevgili <a.sevgili@oneglobal.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:39:27 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for string[] type mapping in EF Core 10

---
 .../Internal/MySQLTypeMappingSource.cs        |  2 +-
 .../StringArrayTest.cs                        | 46 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 EFCore/tests/MySql.EFCore.Basic.Tests/StringArrayTest.cs

diff --git a/EFCore/src/Storage/Internal/MySQLTypeMappingSource.cs b/EFCore/src/Storage/Internal/MySQLTypeMappingSource.cs
index 69860b562..c9fec5a88 100644
--- a/EFCore/src/Storage/Internal/MySQLTypeMappingSource.cs
+++ b/EFCore/src/Storage/Internal/MySQLTypeMappingSource.cs
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ protected void Initialize()
 
           return mapping;
         }
-        else if (clrType == typeof(string))
+        else if (clrType == typeof(string) || clrType == typeof(string[]))
         {
           var isAnsi = mappingInfo.IsUnicode == false;
           var isFixedLength = mappingInfo.IsFixedLength == true;
diff --git a/EFCore/tests/MySql.EFCore.Basic.Tests/StringArrayTest.cs b/EFCore/tests/MySql.EFCore.Basic.Tests/StringArrayTest.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..968143813
--- /dev/null
+++ b/EFCore/tests/MySql.EFCore.Basic.Tests/StringArrayTest.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.TestModels.EntitySplitting;
+using MySql.EntityFrameworkCore.Basic.Tests.Utils;
+using MySql.EntityFrameworkCore.Infrastructure.Internal;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using static MySql.EntityFrameworkCore.Basic.Tests.BasicGuidTests;
+namespace MySql.EntityFrameworkCore.Basic.Tests
+{
+    public class StringArrayTest
+    {
+        [Test]
+        public void TestStringArray()
+        {
+            using var context = new ContextStringArray();
+            string[] stringArray = new string[] { "TEST" };
+            var stockCodeMAtch = context.StringCodeMatch.FirstOrDefault(q => stringArray.Contains(q.Code));
+        }
+
+        public class StringCodeMatch
+        {
+            [Key]
+            public int RecordID { get; set; }
+            public string Code { get; set; }
+        }
+        public class ContextStringArray : DbContext
+        {
+            public DbSet<StringCodeMatch> StringCodeMatch { get; set; }
+            protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
+            {
+                if (!optionsBuilder.IsConfigured
+                  || optionsBuilder.Options.FindExtension<MySQLOptionsExtension>() == null)
+                {
+                    optionsBuilder.UseMySQL($"server=localhost;user=root;database=DbContextStringArray;CharSet=utf8;Pooling=false;");
+                }
+            }
+            protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
+            {
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}