Support changeReason for bulk history create

AUTHORS.rst

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ Authors
 - Marty Alchin
 - Mauricio de Abreu Antunes
 - Micah Denbraver
+- Miguel Vargas
+- Nianpeng Li
 - Phillip Marshall
 - Rajesh Pappula
 - Roberto Aguilar

CHANGES.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Unreleased
+-----------
+- Add `'+'` as the `history_type` for each instance in `bulk_history_create` (gh-449)
+- Add support for  `history_change_reason` for each instance in `bulk_history_create` (gh-449)
+
 2.5.0 (2018-10-18)
 ------------------
 - Add ability to cascade delete historical records when master record is deleted (gh-440)

docs/reference.rst

@@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ history:
     >>> Poll.history.count()
     1000
 
+If you want to specify a change reason for each record in the bulk create, you
+can add `changeReason` on each instance:
+
+.. code-block:: pycon
+
+    >>> for poll in data:
+            poll.changeReason = 'reason'
+    >>> objs = bulk_create_with_history(data, Poll, batch_size=500)
+    >>> Poll.history.get(id=data[0].id).history_change_reason
+    'reason'
+
+
 QuerySet Updates with History
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Unlike with ``bulk_create``, `queryset updates`_ perform an SQL update query on

simple_history/manager.py

@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ def bulk_history_create(self, objs, batch_size=None):
             self.model(
                 history_date=getattr(instance, '_history_date', now()),
                 history_user=getattr(instance, '_history_user', None),
+                history_change_reason=getattr(instance, 'changeReason', ''),
+                history_type='+',
                 **{
                     field.attname: getattr(instance, field.attname)
                     for field in instance._meta.fields

simple_history/tests/tests/test_manager.py

@@ -104,11 +104,26 @@ def test_simple_bulk_history_create(self):
         self.assertQuerysetEqual(Poll.history.order_by('question'), [
             'Question 1', 'Question 2', 'Question 3', 'Question 4'
         ], attrgetter('question'))
+        self.assertTrue(
+            all([history.history_type == '+'
+                 for history in Poll.history.all()])
+        )
 
         created = Poll.history.bulk_create([])
         self.assertEqual(created, [])
         self.assertEqual(Poll.history.count(), 4)
 
+    def test_bulk_history_create_with_change_reason(self):
+        for poll in self.data:
+            poll.changeReason = 'reason'
+
+        Poll.history.bulk_history_create(self.data)
+
+        self.assertTrue(
+            all([history.history_change_reason == 'reason'
+                 for history in Poll.history.all()])
+        )
+
     def test_bulk_history_create_on_objs_without_ids(self):
         self.data = [
             Poll(question='Question 1', pub_date=datetime.now()),