[pytest-dev] Help with parametrized fixtures

[Nikolaus Rath]

Carl Meyer <carl-faUO1KlGllLR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org> writes:
> Hi Nikolaus,
>
> On 11/26/2014 01:21 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> I have a parametrized fixture foo, and some test cases that use it:
>> 
>> @pytest.fixture(params=(1,2,3,4,5))
>> def foo(request):
>>     # ...
>>     return foo_f
>> 
>> def test_1(foo):
>>     # ...
>> 
>> def test_2(foo):
>>     # ....
>> 
>> Now, I'd like to add an additional test, but running it only makes sense
>> for some of the fixture parameters. So far I've solved this by providing
>> the parameter value as a fixture attribute and skipping "unsupported" values:
>> 
>> @pytest.fixture(params=(1,2,3,4,5))
>> def foo(request):
>>     # ...
>>     foo_f.param = request.param
>>     return foo_f
>> 
>> def test_3(foo):
>>     if foo.param not in (1,4,5):
>>         raise pytest.skip("doesn't make sense")
>> 
>> This works, but I don't like it very much because it means that the test
>> suite can never be executed without skipping some tests. I'd rather
>> reserve skipping for cases where the test could in principle be
>> executed, but for some reason cannot work at the moment (e.g. because
>> there's no internet, or a required utility is not installed).
>> 
>> Is there a way to solve the above scenario without skipping tests?
>> 
>> Ideally, I'd be able to do something like this:
>> 
>> @only_for_param((1,4,5))
>> def test_3(foo):
>>     ...
>
> I think in order to do this you'll need to use the
> `pytest_generate_tests` hook:
> http://pytest.org/latest/parametrize.html#pytest-generate-tests

Thanks for the link! The following seems to work nicely:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pytest

@pytest.fixture()
def bar(request):
    s = 'bar-%d' % request.param
    print('preparing', s)
    return s

def test_one(bar):
    pass

def test_two(bar):
    pass
test_two.test_with = (2,3)

def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
    params = (1,2,3,4)
    if not 'bar' in metafunc.fixturenames:
        return

    test_with =  getattr(metafunc.function, 'test_with', None)
    if test_with:
        params = test_with
    metafunc.parametrize("bar", params, indirect=True)


Unfortunately, it seems there are several issues with parametrizing
fixtures these way that are probably going to bite me as things get more
complex:

https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issue/635
https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issue/634
https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issue/531
https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issue/519


(Maybe mentioning them here gives them more attention :-).


Best,
-Nikolaus
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