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Toffee – test object factories
Toffee helps create test fixtures for ORM model objects.
Example:
from toffee import Fixture, Factory product_factory = Factory(Product, id=Seq()) class MyFixture(Fixture): product_1 = product_factory(desc='cuddly toy') product_2 = product_factory(desc='toy tractor') user = Factory(User, username='fred') order = Factory(Order, user=user, products=[product_1, product_2]) def test_product_search(): fixture = MyFixture() fixture.setup() assert fixture.product_1 in search_products('toy') assert fixture.product_2 in search_products('toy') ... fixture.teardown()
Toffee is similar in scope to factory_boy. The differences that prompted me to write a new library are:
Toffee promotes working with on fixtures as groups of objects to be created and destroyed as a unit, rather than individual factories
Explicit support for setup/teardown of fixtures
Use with Django
To use this with Django’s ORM, import DjangoFactory, which knows how to create and delete Django model objects correctly:
from toffee import DjangoFactory as Factory from myapp.models import Product class MyFixture(Fixture): product_2 = Factory(Product, desc='toy tractor')
Use with Storm
To use this with the Storm ORM, import StormFactory, which knows how to create and delete objects with Storm:
from toffee import StormFactory from myapp.models import Product from storm.database import create_database from storm.store import Store database = create_database('sqlite:') Factory = StormFactory.configure(lamdba: Store(database)) class MyFixture(Fixture): product_2 = Factory(Product, desc='toy tractor')
Other ORMs
There is currently no support for other ORMs. Contributions are welcome!
Setup and teardown
Fixtures don’t create any objects until you explicitly set them up:
fixture = MyFixture() fixture.setup()
Fixtures will destroy any objects they’ve created when you call teardown:
fixture.teardown()
NB these methods are aliased to setUp and tearDown for consistency with python’s unittest library.
Call these from your test classes’ setup/teardown methods:
class UserFixture(Fixture): user = Factory(User, username='fred') profile = Factory(Profile, user=user, address='10 Downing Street') class TestSuite: def setUp(self): self.fixtures = UserFixture() self.fixtures.setup() def tearDown(self): self.fixtures.teardown() def test_wotsit(self): assert self.fixtures.user.username == 'fred' assert self.fixtures.user.get_profile().address == \ '10 Downing Street'
You can also use fixtures as context managers, in which case setup and teardown will be called automatically when you enter/exit the block:
with UserFixture() as f: assert f.user.username == 'fred' assert f.profile.address == '10 Downing Street'
Defining factories
The simplest approach is to create a new Factory for every object required:
class MyFixture(Fixture): fred = Factory(User, username='fred', is_admin=False) albert = Factory(User, username='albert', is_admin=True)
You can avoid repeating code by predefine factories for commonly used model classes:
user_factory = Factory(User, is_admin=False, is_active=True) class MyFixture(Fixture): ursula = user_factory(username='ursula') inigo = user_factory(username='inigo') albert = user_factory(username='albert', is_admin=True)
Factories can reference other factories to autocreate related objects:
company_factory = Factory(Company, name=Seq('megacorp-%d')) employee_factory = Factory(Employee, id=Seq(int), company=company_factory)
If employee_factory is called without a company argument, it will generate a fresh one using company_factory.
Sequences
When creating multiple objects of the same type you can use the toffee.Seq class to avoid manually specifying unique values for fields:
product_factory = Factory(Product, sku=Seq('%04d', 0)) class MyFixture(Fixture): p1 = product_factory() p2 = product_factory() p3 = product_factory()
This would assign p1.sku = '0000', p2.sku = '0001' and so on.
The first argument to Seq can be a string (eg 'user-%d') or any callable (eg int or lambda n: 'badger' * n). The second argument is the starting value (default 0)
Object relationships and foreign keys
Suppose you have a bug tracking application. You might have one model object called Bug and another called Product – bugs always belong to a product.
How to set up a fixture containing a product with multiple bugs?
The simplest way is to create all objects and link between them:
class BugFixture(Fixture): product = Factory(Product, name='my amazing software') bug1 = Factory(Bug, comment="it doesnt work", product=product) bug2 = Factory(Bug, comment="it still doesnt work", product=product)
Now when we setup the fixture, toffee will figure out the relationships we need to create the object graph - a single Product instance, linked to two bugs:
with BugFixture() as f: assert f.bug1.product is f.product assert f.bug1.product is f.bug2.product
Suppose we write a lot of tests, and we need a lot of fixtures. To avoid having to repeat a lot of code we can predefine the factories:
product_factory = Factory(Product, name=Seq('Product-%d')) bug_factory = Factory(Bug, comment=Seq('Bug #%d'), product=product_factory)
Notice the product=product_factory bit. Using this bug_factory will call product_factory to generate a fresh product for us every time:
class BugsInSeparateProductsFixture(Fixture): bug1 = bug_factory() bug2 = bug_factory() with BugsInSeparateProductsFixture() as f: assert f.bug1.product.name == 'product-0' assert f.bug2.product.name == 'product-1'
If we want both bugs to link to a single product, we can just tell the second bug to reuse the product from bug1:
class BugsInSameProductFixture(Fixture): bug1 = bug_factory() bug1 = bug_factory(product=bug1.product) with BugsInSameProductFixture() as f: assert f.bug1.product.name == 'product-0' assert f.bug2.product.name == 'product-0'
Post-creation configuration
Override the configure method to add custom configuration of objects:
class MyFixture(Fixture): user = userfactory() def configure(self): add_user_to_group('admin', self.user)
Extending fixtures
Class inheritance is the preferred way to extend fixtures:
user_factory = Factory(User, username=Seq('user-%d'), is_admin=False) class UserFixture(Fixture): fred = user_factory() class UserWithAdministratorFixture(UserFixture): sheila = user_factory(is_admin=True)
But you can also extend fixtures in their constructor:
with UserFixture(sheila=user_factory(is_admin=True)) as f: assert f.sheila.is_admin assert not f.fred.is_admin
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