Enhancement: use initiator of split / merge as owner of new document

src/documents/bulk_edit.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from celery import chord
 from celery import group
 from celery import shared_task
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.db.models import Q
 
 from documents.data_models import ConsumableDocument
@@ -242,6 +243,7 @@ def merge(
     doc_ids: list[int],
     metadata_document_id: Optional[int] = None,
     delete_originals: bool = False,
+    user: User = None,
 ):
     logger.info(
         f"Attempting to merge {len(doc_ids)} documents into a single document.",
@@ -284,6 +286,9 @@ def merge(
     else:
         overrides = DocumentMetadataOverrides()
 
+    if user is not None:
+        overrides.owner_id = user.id
+
     logger.info("Adding merged document to the task queue.")
 
     consume_task = consume_file.s(
@@ -305,7 +310,12 @@ def merge(
     return "OK"
 
 
-def split(doc_ids: list[int], pages: list[list[int]], delete_originals: bool = False):
+def split(
+    doc_ids: list[int],
+    pages: list[list[int]],
+    delete_originals: bool = False,
+    user: User = None,
+):
     logger.info(
         f"Attempting to split document {doc_ids[0]} into {len(pages)} documents",
     )
@@ -330,6 +340,8 @@ def split(doc_ids: list[int], pages: list[list[int]], delete_originals: bool = F
 
                 overrides = DocumentMetadataOverrides().from_document(doc)
                 overrides.title = f"{doc.title} (split {idx + 1})"
+                if user is not None:
+                    overrides.owner_id = user.id
                 logger.info(
                     f"Adding split document with pages {split_doc} to the task queue.",
                 )

src/documents/views.py

@@ -959,6 +959,11 @@ class BulkEditView(PassUserMixin):
         method = serializer.validated_data.get("method")
         parameters = serializer.validated_data.get("parameters")
         documents = serializer.validated_data.get("documents")
+        if method in [
+            bulk_edit.split,
+            bulk_edit.merge,
+        ]:
+            parameters["user"] = user
 
         if not user.is_superuser:
             document_objs = Document.objects.select_related("owner").filter(