bulkCreate() now has a third argument which gives you the ability to validate each row before attempting to bulkInsert.

[durango]

bulkCreate was originally made to be a mainstream/fast way of inserting records, however, sometimes you want the luxury of being able to insert multiple rows at once without sacrificing model validations. I've added a third argument to bulkCreate which is an object and currently the only option is {validate: true} I actually need this for my workplace, so please do review the PR let me know what you don't like (if anything) etc.

The following code...

var Tasks = this.sequelize.define('Task', {
        name: {
          type: Sequelize.STRING,
          validate: {
            notNull: { args: true, msg: 'name cannot be null' }
          }
        },
        code: {
          type: Sequelize.STRING,
          validate: {
            len: [3, 10]
          }
        }
      })

      Tasks.sync({ force: true }).success(function() {
        Tasks.bulkCreate([
          {name: 'foo', code: '123'},
          {code: '1234'},
          {name: 'bar', code: '1'}
        ], null, {validate: true}).error(function(errors) {
          // console.log(errors)
        })
     })

Produces this errors object:

[
  {
    "record": {
      "code": "1234"
    },
    "errors": {
      "name": [
        "name cannot be null"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "record": {
      "name": "bar",
      "code": "1"
    },
    "errors": {
      "code": [
        "String is not in range: code"
      ]
    }
  }
]

Which would allow you to not only see the errors, but which records were the offenders.