From be35025b9f02c0155569fb5f6b9a8d13ed061156 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Van den Eynde <tim.vandeneynde@mobilevikings.be>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 14:59:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a way to save only dirty fields by default

We create an extra class that can be used when the user wants to always
save only dirty fields when calling save().
---
 src/dirtyfields/__init__.py    |  2 +-
 src/dirtyfields/dirtyfields.py | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/dirtyfields/__init__.py b/src/dirtyfields/__init__.py
index ab41041..3b2cbce 100644
--- a/src/dirtyfields/__init__.py
+++ b/src/dirtyfields/__init__.py
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
 __all__ = ['DirtyFieldsMixin']
 __version__ = "1.8.3.dev0"
 
-from dirtyfields.dirtyfields import DirtyFieldsMixin
+from dirtyfields.dirtyfields import DefaultDirtyFieldsMixin, DirtyFieldsMixin
 
 VERSION = tuple(map(int, __version__.split(".")[0:3]))
diff --git a/src/dirtyfields/dirtyfields.py b/src/dirtyfields/dirtyfields.py
index 740f6a0..650d13c 100644
--- a/src/dirtyfields/dirtyfields.py
+++ b/src/dirtyfields/dirtyfields.py
@@ -186,10 +186,22 @@ def is_dirty(self, check_relationship=False, check_m2m=None):
 
     def save_dirty_fields(self):
         if self._state.adding:
-            self.save()
+            super().save()
         else:
             dirty_fields = self.get_dirty_fields(check_relationship=True)
-            self.save(update_fields=dirty_fields.keys())
+            super().save(update_fields=dirty_fields.keys())
+
+
+class DefaultDirtyFieldsMixin(DirtyFieldsMixin):
+    """
+    Save dirty fields automatically when calling save()
+    """
+
+    def save(self, *args, save_all=False, **kwargs):
+        if save_all:
+            super().save(*args, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            self.save_dirty_fields()
 
 
 def reset_state(sender, instance, **kwargs):