Fixed #8065 -- Made id_list an optional argument for QuerySet.in_bulk().

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
index c9c3712669..af307fa47d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
@@ -1836,10 +1836,11 @@ database query like ``count()`` would.
 in_bulk
 ~~~~~~~
 
-.. method:: in_bulk(id_list)
+.. method:: in_bulk(id_list=None)
 
 Takes a list of primary-key values and returns a dictionary mapping each
-primary-key value to an instance of the object with the given ID.
+primary-key value to an instance of the object with the given ID. If a list
+isn't provided, all objects in the queryset are returned.
 
 Example::
 
@@ -1849,9 +1850,15 @@ Example::
     {1: <Blog: Beatles Blog>, 2: <Blog: Cheddar Talk>}
     >>> Blog.objects.in_bulk([])
     {}
+    >>> Blog.objects.in_bulk()
+    {1: <Blog: Beatles Blog>, 2: <Blog: Cheddar Talk>, 3: <Blog: Django Weblog>}
 
 If you pass ``in_bulk()`` an empty list, you'll get an empty dictionary.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 1.10
+
+    In older versions, ``id_list`` was a required argument.
+
 iterator
 ~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.10.txt b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
index 077a27cea1..31e15663ba 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.10.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ Models
   :class:`~django.db.models.AutoField` except that it is guaranteed
   to fit numbers from ``1`` to ``9223372036854775807``.
 
+* :meth:`QuerySet.in_bulk() <django.db.models.query.QuerySet.in_bulk>`
+  may be called without any arguments to return all objects in the queryset.
+
 Requests and Responses
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^