Hi Floris, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:55 +0100, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > Hi Holger, everyone, > > Yesterday a resource provider API was considered on IRC, unfortunately > I have no logs and forgot the details already. But today I remembered > a, possibly invalid, use case which might want to benefit form this: > occasionally I wish it was possible to dynamically create funcarg > objects. > > The concrete example I have now is that it could be nice in > pytest-django to be able to request e.g. "Users" which is a model > class used to access the User table in the database. Currently this > is only possible by someone explicitly defining pytest_funcarg__Users, > but Django allows you to dynamically look up all the models in the > database so there is no reason this can't be build automatically. > > I think this is what the API you proposed was for, but as I said I > can't remember the details. And in this case I might be less > enthusiastic in postponing it's implementation to a later release ;-)
It's probably true that we could invent an register-factory API for this. However, what about a single "models" object (done traditionally with a pytest_funcarg__models definition) which itself provides an API to give "Users" or others data? best, holger > Regards, > Floris > > -- > Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom > www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org > _______________________________________________ > py-dev mailing list > py-dev@codespeak.net > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev > _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev