pytest-dev / pytest-dev/pytest-factoryboy
Alternative for `register`
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Description
We may want to provide an alternative to the register(...) function to inject fixtures in the current module.
I considered having a special variable, like "bdd_fixtures", that the user can declare in the module. We can then check at collection time if a module has this variable and inject the fixtures.
Example:
factoryboy_fixtures = (
register("foo", FooFactory),
...
)
The reason for this is that it's not nice to have to do a from .my_fixtures import * for a user when fixtures are defined across multiple modules and have to be imported in the main conftest.py.
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Research direction
Start by reading the existing register(...) implementation and the collection-time fixture injection logic. Compare how fixtures are imported from multiple modules, then define the behavior for discovering a module-level factoryboy_fixtures value. Done means modules can declare that value to inject fixtures without importing register(...) calls into conftest.py, while the existing approach remains understood.
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- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- testing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 35/100