Add the option to automatically push changes to objects when synchronizing data sources

[jeremystretch]

NetBox version

v3.5-beta1

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

#11558 introduced the ability to populate certain object data from remote data sources. Currently, this is a two-step process:

1. Run a synchronization job to create/update local DataFile objects from the source.
2. Individually sync NetBox objects to reflect the new data in those DataFiles.

This separation of tasks is intentional, and ensures a decoupling of synchronization jobs (which are expected to be automated) from effecting a change to production data. However, there may be cases where it's desirable to effect changes immediately upon synchronization with the remote source.

This FR proposes the addition of an auto_sync boolean field to the SyncedDataMixin class. Any object with auto_sync set to true shall have its sync_data() method called automatically upon its associated DataFile being updated.

Use case

This provides an alternative direct coupling approach to employing synchronized object data, while preserving the existing loose coupling as the default option.

Database changes

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External dependencies

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[arjenvri]

This is a great feature! Would this also allow for existing object data update and removal possibly based on the remote data source data?