[FIXED] Django bulk_create function example

Issue

I'm trying to understand bulk_create in Django

This was my original query I'm trying to convert:

for e in q:
    msg = Message.objects.create(
        recipient_number=e.mobile,
        content=batch.content,
        sender=e.contact_owner,
        billee=batch.user,
        sender_name=batch.sender_name
    )

Does that mean doing the following (below) will loop and create all the entries first then hit the database? Is this right?

msg = Message.objects.bulk_create({
    Message (
        recipient_number=e.mobile,
        content=batch.content,
        sender=e.contact_owner,
        billee=batch.user,
        sender_name=batch.sender_name
    ),
})

Solution

The second code in the question create a single object, because it pass a set with a Message object.

To create multiple objects, pass multiple Message objects to bulk_create. For example:

objs = [
    Message(
        recipient_number=e.mobile,
        content=batch.content,
        sender=e.contact_owner,
        billee=batch.user,
        sender_name=batch.sender_name
    )
    for e in q
]
msg = Message.objects.bulk_create(objs)

Answered By - falsetru