[Bug] Using `once` record_mode gives error

Problem

Using once gives an error:

vcr.errors.CannotOverwriteExistingCassetteException: Can't overwrite existing cassette ([PATH_OF_CASETTE_FILE]) in your current record mode ('once').
E               No match for the request (<Request (GET) https://postman-echo.com/get?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2>) was found.
E               No similar requests, that have not been played, found.

I ran this the first time so PATH_OF_CASETTE_FILE shouldn’t exist although the error seems to say it exists. I checked the PATH_OF_CASETTE_FILE that the error specifies before I run my test the 2nd time and indeed no such file exists.

To Reproduce

import pytest
import requests

@pytest.mark.vcr(record_mode="once")
def test_vcr():
    response = requests.get("https://postman-echo.com/get?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2")
    assert response.status_code == 200

Stacktrace

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../../Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/featuredproductsswitch-q2O7GQgj-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/api.py:76: in get
    return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
../../Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/featuredproductsswitch-q2O7GQgj-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/api.py:61: in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
../../Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/featuredproductsswitch-q2O7GQgj-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/sessions.py:530: in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
../../Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/featuredproductsswitch-q2O7GQgj-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/sessions.py:643: in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
../../Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/featuredproductsswitch-q2O7GQgj-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/adapters.py:439: in send
    resp = conn.urlopen(
../../Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/featuredproductsswitch-q2O7GQgj-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:670: in urlopen
    httplib_response = self._make_request(
../../Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/featuredproductsswitch-q2O7GQgj-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:417: in _make_request
    httplib_response = conn.getresponse(buffering=True)

[paxcodes]

I believe it also does not work when I use the vcr_config fixture to set the record_mode to ‘once’

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 7:04 AM Dmitry Dygalo [e-mail] wrote:

The problem is, that record_mode passed in the vcr mark is not passed to VCR. I’ll fix that

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[paxcodes]

Works perfectly. Thanks once again @Stranger6667!