Closes #19713: Enable recording user messages in the change log (#19908)

* Add message field to ObjectChange model

* Set max length on changelog message

* Enable changelog messages for single object operations

* Fix tests

* Add changelog message support for bulk edit & bulk delete

* Cosmetic improvements to form fields

* Fix bulk operation templates

* Add message support for bulk import/update

* Add REST API support for changelog messages (WIP)

* Fix changelog_message assignment

* Enable changelog message support for bulk deletions

* Add documentation

* Fix changelog message support for VirtualChassis

* Add ChangeLoggingMixin to necesssary model forms

* Introduce get_random_string() utility function for tests

* Incorporate changelog messages for object view tests

* Incorporate changelog messages for object bulk view tests

* Add missing mixins for changelog message support

* Tweak test to generate expected number of change records

* Finish adding tests for changelog message functionality

* Misc cleanup

* Fixes #19956: Prevent duplicate deletion records from cascading deletions

* Tweak bulk deletion test to work around cascading deletions issue

* Correct API URL

netbox/core/tests/test_changelog.py

@@ -346,6 +346,38 @@ class ChangeLogViewTest(ModelViewTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(changes[1].changed_object_type, ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Interface))
         self.assertEqual(changes[2].changed_object_type, ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Device))
 
+    def test_duplicate_deletions(self):
+        """
+        Check that a cascading deletion event does not generate multiple "deleted" ObjectChange records for
+        the same object.
+        """
+        role1 = DeviceRole(name='Role 1', slug='role-1')
+        role1.save()
+        role2 = DeviceRole(name='Role 2', slug='role-2', parent=role1)
+        role2.save()
+        pk_list = [role1.pk, role2.pk]
+
+        # Delete both objects simultaneously
+        form_data = {
+            'pk': pk_list,
+            'confirm': True,
+            '_confirm': True,
+        }
+        request = {
+            'path': reverse('dcim:devicerole_bulk_delete'),
+            'data': post_data(form_data),
+        }
+        self.add_permissions('dcim.delete_devicerole')
+        self.assertHttpStatus(self.client.post(**request), 302)
+
+        # This should result in exactly one change record per object
+        objectchanges = ObjectChange.objects.filter(
+            changed_object_type=ContentType.objects.get_for_model(DeviceRole),
+            changed_object_id__in=pk_list,
+            action=ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_DELETE
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(objectchanges.count(), 2)
+
 
 class ChangeLogAPITest(APITestCase):
 

netbox/core/tests/test_filtersets.py

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class DataFileTestCase(TestCase, ChangeLoggedFilterSetTests):
 class ObjectChangeTestCase(TestCase, BaseFilterSetTests):
     queryset = ObjectChange.objects.all()
     filterset = ObjectChangeFilterSet
-    ignore_fields = ('prechange_data', 'postchange_data')
+    ignore_fields = ('message', 'prechange_data', 'postchange_data')
 
     @classmethod
     def setUpTestData(cls):