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scope of fixtures created by register()?

See original GitHub issue

when I do

register(AuthorFactory)

it creates fixture author_factory

my question is how can I specify a scope='session' to the fixture ?

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nathanielobrowncommented, Feb 20, 2021

@olegpidsadnyi, this would be useful for another simple (but important) reason. You cannot use a factory in a fixture with scope other than function. If you do, you get an error like You tried to access the 'function' scoped fixture 'factory' with a 'class' scoped request object.

I think it would be best to give people the option. If they are messing with scopes, ideally they understand what they are doing and the potential foot-guns that come with that.

Not a big deal as we can always use the factory directly in these cases, but would be nice to have this.

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NeveHantercommented, May 16, 2017

Hey @olegpidsadnyi

I also want to suggest this change, in my case I have thousand of tests, nearly all of them need to create base DB structure consisting of approx. 60 db objects and because of the function scope each test creates these objects over and over only to delete them after the each of the tests completes.

Other case includes that each test case class have some objects which are common to each of it’s test methods, so again we’re creating same db objects and again we’re deleting them between the tests.

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