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Chapter: pytest Fixtures
Lecture: Using multiple fixture levels
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So to fix this, we did a delete all within the test but I'd like to do it at the fixture level, so but the fixture is being used for both tests,
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so let's add another fixture in the mix to solve this problem. So I'm gonna grab all of the code that we had and go into multi level
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because that's what we're gonna be doing multilevel fixtures and this sounds complicated, right? You know, suddenly we just learned fixtures,
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man, what are you doing going to multilevel already? But bear with me, this is going to be pretty good.
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Um we just copy and pasted so I'm sure it still fails pytest just or it should actually work, but everything's working.
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But I'd like to make sure that the it's empty at the fixture level, but I don't want to change this back to function because I want this to just
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run once and the close to only one runs at the end. I just want to put this in here.
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This is only gonna if I if I just take this this line and make sure it's empty. Doesn't really do anything.
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Doesn't really help at all because I already it's already just an empty directory, it's going to be empty and this only happens once per module,
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not per function. So I want this delete all to happen once per function and for that to happen, let's just put another fixture in.
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So I'll just grab, grab that def dB fixture cards DB. Well these are these can't be the same name. So I could do this one to be empty empty cards DB.
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And then cards_db delete all. So this would work. So what's happening here is empty Cards_dB. Is depending on Cards_db. And then it's deleting all.
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Oh I have to return cards_db and then I could change then all the tests would change and they'd have to change to use the empty one.
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But I just kind of wanted to always be empty when a test gets it. I don't want to change the name because I don't want to change everywhere.
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I use cards DB through here and maybe I've got dozens of tests by now, I don't want to have to just do a search in place.
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I mean it's not painful but I don't want to do it. So let's change the name here. It just changed the initial cards_db,
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to cards_db module module and then cards_db module. We have to change it here dear and here. So and then we move that back to Cards_db.
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So are the tests, the tests are all depending on this one now. Instead, I just changed the fixture underneath them and Cards_db
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is dependent on the DB module and hopefully everything just works works smoothly. And since I'm not, I don't really need to tear down at the,
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at this level. I'm just doing, delete on the setup. I can just do a return and this will still work
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the tear down for the the parent level module fixture will still run at the right time. I hope we'll see.
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Is this enough? We've got this running this one's cards, cards_db, calling cards_db module doing the set up tear down and the rest of
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the test should just run. Let's cross our fingers and hit go and see what happens. Sweet. Okay. Anti climactic though.
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I mean I'm really excited that that worked actually but let's watch it in action so set up show we can use to see what happened.
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So yes, the card, the cards_db module was run and then cards_db fixture. Oh it's still module scope. So what's going on? How did this pass?
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Oh I'm still deleting all within the tests so delete all, delete all and and so that should fail,
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yep, that fails because I copied and copied and pasted the module scope here. We want the cards_db that does the delete all to be at the function scope
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So between before each function call the delete all to make sure it's empty. Now I think I think we're good.
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Yeah. Sweet. So now we've got the module level fixture running at the beginning
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and then the cleanup at the end and then between tests were just running these the cards_db it still says tear down,
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We don't have any tear down but if we did it would run there. Awesome.