Skipping history creation when deleting an object

[duebbert]

Problem Statement There is no attribute to skip saving a delete history entry when deleting an object.

Describe the solution you'd like Either skip_history_when_saving on the object should be honoured (like in the post_save method) or a new skip_history_when_deleting attribute should be introduced.

Describe alternatives you've considered I'm hacking the settings to temporarily set SIMPLE_HISTORY_ENABLED = False to avoid saving it.

Additional context Implementation should be pretty straightforward like in the post_save method: https://github.com/jazzband/django-simple-history/blob/106266f6d68f74d2d56b0553a368ca8070d5cbc4/simple_history/models.py#L541

[vimuthm]

Facing a similar issue, in that when I delete an object it cascade deletes another model's object that I refer to in the pre_create_historical_record signal, so I cannot access it anymore.

Ideally, I want to pass additional information on delete (and even on save) to the signal handler, but that might be more complicated to implement so @duebbert 's suggested implementation is simple and will suffice.

Alternatively, if the history type attribute can be passed in to the signal which is super easy to implement, it will allow users to have more custom control on how to handle create, edit and delete events differently.