How to create two fixtures with shared value from a subfactory?

This project has two factories using a third factory as subfactory – both User and Location have company as a Company subfactory. How can i get both user and location as fixtures with the same company instance?

class CompanyFactory(FlaskSQLAlchemyModelFactory):
    """Create companies and optionally save them to the database."""

    class Meta:  # noqa: D106
        model = Company


class LocationFactory(FlaskSQLAlchemyModelFactory):
    """Create location and optionally save them to the database."""

    class Meta:  # noqa: D106
        model = Location

    label = TEST_LABEL
    company = factory.SubFactory(CompanyFactory)


class UserFactory(FlaskSQLAlchemyModelFactory):
    """Create users and optionally save them to the database."""

    class Meta:  # noqa: D106
        model = User

    company = factory.SubFactory(CompanyFactory)

[youtux]

UserFactory will use the company fixture when creating a user. That company fixture is registered by register(CompanyFactory).

If you want to use a different company for your user, you have to override the fixture or use an explicit pytest parametrization (pytest.mark.parametrize):

register(CompanyFactory)  # Implicitly registered under the "company" fixture name
register(CompanyFactory, "second_company")

register(LocationFactory)
register(UserFactory)

@pytest.mark.parametrize('user__company', [LazyFixture("second_company"))
def test_foo(user, company, second_company):
    assert user.company is second_company

[barraponto]

OMG you’re right! I just assumed they weren’t! Subfactories are only called once then, unless I somehow ask it not to?