Great... I'll work on cleaning it up a bit (it's kind of fugly right now) and circle back once it's ready...
Thanks! Chris On 8/28/07, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/29/07, Chris H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sorry for spamming, wasn't sure if I should combine this in my last > > post... > > Two messages with well considered content isn't spam - its the right > approach. One idea per thread. > > > I've been meaning to clean up the code and release it or supply it as > > a patch on a ticket, but I wasn't sure what the opinion of folks was > > on fixtures vs. setting up objects on the fly. If we don't want to > > encourage that behavior I can keep my code safely tucked away (and > > ugly) :-) > > Fixtures work for many cases, but sometimes your test cases will > require that you create objects on the fly. The proposal to add > programmable syntax to the fixtures framework has been made a few > times, and our response has been to say 'just put the relevant code in > your setup method'. > > This leaves some users dissatisfied due to the apparently onerous > overhead of writing code to create object instances (I don't entirely > understand this position, but that's just me). If you've got some > magic framework that can help with building 'dynamic fixtures', we'd > love to see it. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
