fix issue where bulk actions would return, not raise 404

return Http404 -> raise Http404

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Changelog
  * Upgrade ESLint and Stylelint configurations to latest shared Wagtail configs (Thibaud Colas)
  * Major updates to frontend tooling; move Node tooling from Gulp to Webpack, upgrade to Node v16 and npm v8, eslint v8, stylelint v14 and others (Thibaud Colas)
  * Change comment headers’ date formatting to use browser APIs instead of requiring a library (LB (Ben Johnston))
+ * Fix issue where invalid bulk action URLs would incorrectly trigger a server error (500) instead of a valid not found (404) (Ihor Marhitych)
 
 
 2.16.1 (xx.xx.xxxx) - IN DEVELOPMENT

docs/releases/2.17.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
- * ...
+ * Fix issue where invalid bulk action URLs would incorrectly trigger a server error (500) instead of a valid not found (404) (Ihor Marhitych)
 
 
 ## Upgrade considerations

wagtail/admin/tests/pages/test_bulk_actions/test_bulk_action.py

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.urls import reverse
+
+from wagtail.tests.utils import WagtailTestUtils
+
+
+class TestBulkActionDispatcher(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
+    def setUp(self):
+
+        # Login
+        self.user = self.login()
+
+    def test_bulk_action_invalid_action(self):
+        url = reverse('wagtail_bulk_action', args=('wagtailcore', 'page', 'ships', ))
+        response = self.client.get(url)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 404)

wagtail/admin/views/bulk_action/dispatcher.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from django.apps import apps
-from django.http.response import Http404
+from django.http import Http404
 
 from wagtail.admin.views.bulk_action.registry import bulk_action_registry as registry
 
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ def index(request, app_label, model_name, action):
     action_class = registry.get_bulk_action_class(app_label, model_name, action)
     if action_class is not None:
         return action_class(request, model).dispatch(request)
-    return Http404()
+    raise Http404