Session fixture is being activated second time

[dina809]

Hi

we have a session fixture that receives parameters.
when running 2 tests using this fixture, it is being activated also for the second test.

how can we make it to run 1 time only (despite the fact it has parameters)?

using pytest 5.4.2 (python 3.7.4)

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

your setup is not clear, in general when it gets parameters, it gets enabled for every parameter

if you need a intermediate fixture, its necessary to have a fixture without parameters to do the heavy lifting and a parameter using fixture to do the little bits

[Formartha]

@RonnyPfannschmidt - So you are saying that fixutre in session scope shouldn't get parameters? and if it does, than it becomes a function scope fixture?

Thanks.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

no, im saying at the session scope the fixture is set up for each parameter,, si its activated once for each parameter

parameters also exist at session scope and dont force function scope

[dina809]

@RonnyPfannschmidt - thanks for the help, but still need to clarify something.
session scope fixtures supposed to be executed once per session (fixture without parameters)
if i have session fixture with parameters then it will be activated per each parameter. is it correct to assume that if the fixture is called twice (from 2 diff functions) with SAME parameter it will be activated only one time?

i tried this example and the fixture activated each call. so not sure what is the difference between function scope fixture and session scope fixture with parameters

here is the example:

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def prepare_dict(request):
    """ dict for example """
    print("parameter is {}".format(request.param["name"]))


@pytest.mark.parametrize('prepare_dict', [{"name": "dina"}], indirect=True)
def test_example(prepare_dict):
    print("Test1 done\n")

@pytest.mark.parametrize('prepare_dict', [{"name": "mor"}], indirect=True)
def test_example_2(prepare_dict):
    print("Test2 done\n")

@pytest.mark.parametrize('prepare_dict', [{"name": "dina"}], indirect=True)
def test_example_3(prepare_dict):
    print("Test3 done\n")

output

parameter is dina
Test1 done
parameter is mor
Test2 done
parameter is dina
Test3 done

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Oh, you are hitting a bug there, the Parametrize turns the scope to function

Please set scope to session there as well, i believe more recent pytest handles this Better

[dina809]

@RonnyPfannschmidt - I'v upgraded pytest to 6.2.2 and added scope parameter to the parameterize so it is looking like this:

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def prepare_dict(request):
    """ dict for example """
    print("parameter is {}".format(request.param["name"]))


@pytest.mark.parametrize('prepare_dict', [{"name": "dina"}], indirect=True, scope="session")
def test_example(prepare_dict):
    print("Test1 done\n")

@pytest.mark.parametrize('prepare_dict', [{"name": "mor"}], indirect=True, scope="session")
def test_example_2(prepare_dict):
    print("Test2 done\n")


@pytest.mark.parametrize('prepare_dict', [{"name": "dina"}], indirect=True, scope="session")
def test_example_3(prepare_dict):
    print("Test3 done\n")

but still it is activated 3 times..
using python 3.7.4

[dina809]

@RonnyPfannschmidt - Hi Ronny, any updates on this? should i convert this issue to a bug?
thanks.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

thanks for the ping, this went under, i'll test this today

[dina809]

@RonnyPfannschmidt - ok, thanks! waiting for an update :)

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

ok, i understood the issue

i adopted the test script a bit to experiment with different parameter passing

import pytest


@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def prepare_dict(request):
    """ dict for example """
    print("\nparameter is {}".format(request.param))

dina = {"name": "dina"}
mor = {"name": "mor"}

def deco(name):
    return pytest.mark.parametrize('prepare_dict', [name["name"]], indirect=True, scope="session", ids=lambda x:x["name"] if isinstance(x, dict) else x)


@deco(dina)
def test_example(prepare_dict):
    print("Test1 done\n")

@deco(mor)
def test_example_2(prepare_dict):
    print("Test2 done\n")


@deco(dina)
def test_example_3(prepare_dict):
    print("Test3 done\n")

as far as i gathered pytest does not consider them the same identity in any case and thus does not reorder tests to avoid setup/teardown

this could also be a edge case bug in the test reordering

[Formartha]

Thanks @RonnyPfannschmidt,
Both me and Dina are trying to understand what shall we do next? as in, how to workaround this issue? any ideas?
I'm thinking that all the fixtures are kept in memory, thus a singleton might help to determine if a fixture ran or not.

I'm not sure if there are other options (maybe register a attribute on request object might help), but we'll appreciate your guidence.

Thanks,
Mor

[BorjaEst]

Same issue here I think:

See this example.

import pytest

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def param1(request):
    print("session param1 is {}".format(request.param))

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def param2(request):
    print("session param2 is {}".format(request.param))

@pytest.mark.parametrize('param1', [1, 2], indirect=True)
@pytest.mark.parametrize('param2', [1, 2], indirect=True)
def test_example(param1, param2):
    print("Test done\n")

Provides the following output.

$ pytest -s
========================= test session starts =========================
platform linux -- Python 3.8.3, pytest-6.2.1, py-1.10.0, pluggy-0.13.1
rootdir: /home/.../Temp/test
collected 4 items

test_example.py session param1 is 1
session param2 is 1    # <-- FIRST execution of param2 with 1
Test done

.session param2 is 2
Test done

.session param1 is 2
Test done

.session param2 is 1   # <-- SECOND execution of param2 with 1
Test done

.

========================== 4 passed in 0.01s ==========================

As I defined the fixture as "session" I do not expect to have the fixture running a second time with the same parameter...