SailsJS - How to specify string attribute length without getting error when creating record?

Question

I\'m using Sails 0.9.8 paired with MySQL and wanting to do something like this

localhost:1337/player/view/

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Answer 1

The marked answer is quiet old. As per the latest sails version (1.0.2 as of the date of writing this answer),

I used the columnType attribute like this:

attributes: {

  longDescription: {
    type: 'string',
    columnType: 'text'
  }
}