Evaluate SSoT with Data Valdation Engine

[chadell]

Environment

• Nautobot version: 1.5.16
• nautobot-ssot version: 1.2.0

Proposed Functionality

Evaluate/Document how this plugin could leverage the Data Validation Engine plugin to "outsource" the validation logic.

Use Case

Simplify SSoT plugins externalizing data validation logic to another plugin.

[Kircheneer]

As validated_save() today already runs validations from the data validation engine, is the ask here to move that validation from the object CRUD into the loading? I.e. somehow calling full_clean() from within load()?

[chadell]

The idea is to connect the dots. If the validated_save() is already calling the validation rule from the Data Validation Engine, we just need to document and add an example to help people that do not know about it how to use

[Kircheneer]

Alright, so purely a documentation issue then, no code required on the SSoT side?

[chadell]

if the default behavior is good enough, then no