Provide a better way to push model changes outside of views

[aljp]

At the moment there's no convenient way to push model changes outside of views. We can do this with something like:

pusher_backends = get_models_pusher_backends(model)
for pusher_backend in pusher_backends:
    pusher_backend(view=self).push_change(...)  # may need to mock view if we're using this outside of the view

However there must be a better way...

[mattjegan]

Apart from the solution you mention, I have come up with 2 other APIs that might be nicer for our users. The first uses a util function that essentially wraps your solution:

from drf_model_pusher.utils import push_from_model

push_from_model(model)

The second would be to provide a model mixin which implements a push_changes(self, event_name) method that could be called whenever or even overriden:

from drf_model_pusher.mixins import DrfModelPusherModelMixin

class MyModel(models.Model, DrfModelPusherModelMixin):
    ...