Sequelize bulkCreate() returns NULL value for primary key

Question

I am writing rest using node, sequelize as ORM for mySQL. I am using bulkCreate function to create record in bulk. But in response it is returning null for

Answer 1

From the documentation: please notice that these may not completely represent the state of the rows in the DB. This is because MySQL and SQLite do not make it easy to obtain back automatically generated IDs and other default values in a way that can be mapped to multiple records. To obtain Instances for the newly created values, you will need to query for them again. http://docs.sequelizejs.com/class/lib/model.js~Model.html#static-method-bulkCreate

But you can pass an option to make it return the id

orm.models.category.bulkCreate(data, { returning: true })