Is it possible to use this with FactoryBoy?

It would be useful to see an example of how to use pytest-flask-sqlalchemy with FactoryBoy/pytest-factoryboy, if they can work together. For example, I’m not clear what would be used for factory classes’ sqlalchemy_session field.

(Background: I use something like pytest-flask-sqlalchemy in my tests, and would like to switch to pytest-flask-sqlalchemy when the MySQL PR is included, and would also like to use FactoryBoy, but have never managed to get the two things to work well together.)

[layoaster]

@philgyford when a fixture needs anothers fixture you just pass them via paremeters so your fixture book_factory should look like this:

@pytest.fixture
def book_factory(db_session, author_factory):

    class BookFactory(factory.alchemy.SQLAlchemyModelFactory):

        class Meta:
            model = Book
            sqlalchemy_session = db_session
            sqlalchemy_session_persistence = "commit"

        title = factory.Faker("sentence", nb_words=4)
        author = factory.SubFactory(author_factory)

    return BookFactory

[killthekitten]

A reproducible example of your setup would help. We use FactoryBoy with pytest-flask-sqlalchemy + postgres without any troubles.