charlatan 0.2.2

Efficiently manage and install data fixtures

Efficiently manage and install data fixtures

Charlatan is a library that you can use in your tests to create database fixtures. Its aim is to provide a pragmatic interface that focuses on making it simple to define and install fixtures for your tests. It is also agnostic in so far as even though it’s designed to work out of the box with SQLAlchemy models, it can work with pretty much anything else.

Documentation

Latest documentation: uber.github.io/charlatan

Getting started

import unittest

from toaster.models import db_session

import charlatan

charlatan.load("./tests/data/fixtures.yaml",
               models_package="toaster.models",
               db_session=db_session)


class TestToaster(unittest.TestCase, charlatan.FixturesManagerMixin):

    def setUp(self):
        self.clean_fixtures_cache()
        self.install_fixtures(("toaster", "user"))

    def test_toaster(self):
        """Verify that toaster can toast."""

        self.toaster.toast()

Installation

For now, you need to install charlatan by adding the following to your requirements.txt:

-e [e-mail]:uber/charlatan.git#egg=charlatan

License

charlatan is available under the MIT License.

Copyright Uber 2013, Charles-Axel Dein <[e-mail]>

Authors

Charles-Axel Dein <[e-mail]>