Pass a parameter to a fixture function

Solution 1:

This is actually supported natively in py.test via indirect parametrization.

In your case, you would have:

@pytest.fixture
def tester(request):
    """Create tester object"""
    return MyTester(request.param)


class TestIt:
    @pytest.mark.parametrize('tester', [['var1', 'var2']], indirect=True)
    def test_tc1(self, tester):
       tester.dothis()
       assert 1

Solution 2:

Update: Since this the accepted answer to this question and still gets upvoted sometimes, I should add an update. Although my original answer (below) was the only way to do this in older versions of pytest as others have noted pytest now supports indirect parametrization of fixtures. For example you can do something like this (via @imiric):

# test_parameterized_fixture.py
import pytest

class MyTester:
    def __init__(self, x):
        self.x = x

    def dothis(self):
        assert self.x

@pytest.fixture
def tester(request):
    """Create tester object"""
    return MyTester(request.param)


class TestIt:
    @pytest.mark.parametrize('tester', [True, False], indirect=['tester'])
    def test_tc1(self, tester):
       tester.dothis()
       assert 1

$ pytest -v test_parameterized_fixture.py
================================================================================= test session starts =================================================================================
platform cygwin -- Python 3.6.8, pytest-5.3.1, py-1.8.0, pluggy-0.13.1 -- /usr/bin/python3
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: .
collected 2 items

test_parameterized_fixture.py::TestIt::test_tc1[True] PASSED                                                                                                                    [ 50%]
test_parameterized_fixture.py::TestIt::test_tc1[False] FAILED

However, although this form of indirect parametrization is explicit, as @Yukihiko Shinoda points out it now supports a form of implicit indirect parametrization (though I couldn't find any obvious reference to this in the official docs):

# test_parameterized_fixture2.py
import pytest

class MyTester:
    def __init__(self, x):
        self.x = x

    def dothis(self):
        assert self.x

@pytest.fixture
def tester(tester_arg):
    """Create tester object"""
    return MyTester(tester_arg)


class TestIt:
    @pytest.mark.parametrize('tester_arg', [True, False])
    def test_tc1(self, tester):
       tester.dothis()
       assert 1

$ pytest -v test_parameterized_fixture2.py
================================================================================= test session starts =================================================================================
platform cygwin -- Python 3.6.8, pytest-5.3.1, py-1.8.0, pluggy-0.13.1 -- /usr/bin/python3
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: .
collected 2 items

test_parameterized_fixture2.py::TestIt::test_tc1[True] PASSED                                                                                                                   [ 50%]
test_parameterized_fixture2.py::TestIt::test_tc1[False] FAILED

I don't know exactly what are the semantics of this form, but it seems that pytest.mark.parametrize recognizes that although the test_tc1 method does not take an argument named tester_arg, the tester fixture that it's using does, so it passes the parametrized argument on through the tester fixture.

I had a similar problem--I have a fixture called test_package, and I later wanted to be able to pass an optional argument to that fixture when running it in specific tests. For example:

@pytest.fixture()
def test_package(request, version='1.0'):
    ...
    request.addfinalizer(fin)
    ...
    return package

(It doesn't matter for these purposes what the fixture does or what type of object the returned package) is.

It would then be desirable to somehow use this fixture in a test function in such a way that I can also specify the version argument to that fixture to use with that test. This is currently not possible, though might make a nice feature.

In the meantime it was easy enough to make my fixture simply return a function that does all the work the fixture previously did, but allows me to specify the version argument:

@pytest.fixture()
def test_package(request):
    def make_test_package(version='1.0'):
        ...
        request.addfinalizer(fin)
        ...
        return test_package

    return make_test_package

Now I can use this in my test function like:

def test_install_package(test_package):
    package = test_package(version='1.1')
    ...
    assert ...

and so on.

The OP's attempted solution was headed in the right direction, and as @hpk42's answer suggests, the MyTester.__init__ could just store off a reference to the request like:

class MyTester(object):
    def __init__(self, request, arg=["var0", "var1"]):
        self.request = request
        self.arg = arg
        # self.use_arg_to_init_logging_part()

    def dothis(self):
        print "this"

    def dothat(self):
        print "that"

Then use this to implement the fixture like:

@pytest.fixture()
def tester(request):
    """ create tester object """
    # how to use the list below for arg?
    _tester = MyTester(request)
    return _tester

If desired the MyTester class could be restructured a bit so that its .args attribute can be updated after it has been created, to tweak the behavior for individual tests.

Solution 3:

I couldn't find any document, however, it seems to work in latest version of pytest.

@pytest.fixture
def tester(tester_arg):
    """Create tester object"""
    return MyTester(tester_arg)


class TestIt:
    @pytest.mark.parametrize('tester_arg', [['var1', 'var2']])
    def test_tc1(self, tester):
       tester.dothis()
       assert 1