From 57b033e2dd17b89d171570475b706c5bc671f52f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amit Basuri <amitbasuri123@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 07:33:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Marshalling zero valued Deleted at to
 nullhttps://github.com/go-gorm/gorm/issues/3693 (#3695)

---
 soft_delete.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/soft_delete.go b/soft_delete.go
index b68cee43..284129a1 100644
--- a/soft_delete.go
+++ b/soft_delete.go
@@ -33,8 +33,12 @@ func (n DeletedAt) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 }
 
 func (n *DeletedAt) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
+	if string(b) == "null" {
+		n.Valid = false
+		return nil
+	}
 	err := json.Unmarshal(b, &n.Time)
-	if err == nil && !n.Time.IsZero() {
+	if err == nil {
 		n.Valid = true
 	}
 	return err