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authorRaphaël Barrois <raphael.barrois@polytechnique.org>2013-03-11 22:07:23 +0100
committerRaphaël Barrois <raphael.barrois@polytechnique.org>2013-03-11 22:11:35 +0100
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Add FACTORY_CLASS kwarg to make_factory and friends.
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@@ -1219,6 +1219,25 @@ Lightweight factory declaration
login = 'john'
email = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda u: '%s@example.com' % u.login)
+ An alternate base class to :class:`Factory` can be specified in the
+ ``FACTORY_CLASS`` argument:
+
+ .. code-block:: python
+
+ UserFactory = make_factory(models.User,
+ login='john',
+ email=factory.LazyAttribute(lambda u: '%s@example.com' % u.login),
+ FACTORY_CLASS=factory.DjangoModelFactory,
+ )
+
+ # This is equivalent to:
+
+ class UserFactory(factory.DjangoModelFactory):
+ FACTORY_FOR = models.User
+
+ login = 'john'
+ email = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda u: '%s@example.com' % u.login)
+
Instance building
"""""""""""""""""
@@ -1226,8 +1245,8 @@ Instance building
The :mod:`factory` module provides a bunch of shortcuts for creating a factory and
extracting instances from them:
-.. function:: build(klass, **kwargs)
-.. function:: build_batch(klass, size, **kwargs)
+.. function:: build(klass, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
+.. function:: build_batch(klass, size, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
Create a factory for :obj:`klass` using declarations passed in kwargs;
return an instance built from that factory,
@@ -1236,11 +1255,12 @@ extracting instances from them:
:param class klass: Class of the instance to build
:param int size: Number of instances to build
:param kwargs: Declarations to use for the generated factory
+ :param FACTORY_CLASS: Alternate base class (instead of :class:`Factory`)
-.. function:: create(klass, **kwargs)
-.. function:: create_batch(klass, size, **kwargs)
+.. function:: create(klass, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
+.. function:: create_batch(klass, size, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
Create a factory for :obj:`klass` using declarations passed in kwargs;
return an instance created from that factory,
@@ -1249,11 +1269,12 @@ extracting instances from them:
:param class klass: Class of the instance to create
:param int size: Number of instances to create
:param kwargs: Declarations to use for the generated factory
+ :param FACTORY_CLASS: Alternate base class (instead of :class:`Factory`)
-.. function:: stub(klass, **kwargs)
-.. function:: stub_batch(klass, size, **kwargs)
+.. function:: stub(klass, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
+.. function:: stub_batch(klass, size, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
Create a factory for :obj:`klass` using declarations passed in kwargs;
return an instance stubbed from that factory,
@@ -1262,11 +1283,12 @@ extracting instances from them:
:param class klass: Class of the instance to stub
:param int size: Number of instances to stub
:param kwargs: Declarations to use for the generated factory
+ :param FACTORY_CLASS: Alternate base class (instead of :class:`Factory`)
-.. function:: generate(klass, strategy, **kwargs)
-.. function:: generate_batch(klass, strategy, size, **kwargs)
+.. function:: generate(klass, strategy, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
+.. function:: generate_batch(klass, strategy, size, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
Create a factory for :obj:`klass` using declarations passed in kwargs;
return an instance generated from that factory with the :obj:`strategy` strategy,
@@ -1276,11 +1298,12 @@ extracting instances from them:
:param str strategy: The strategy to use
:param int size: Number of instances to generate
:param kwargs: Declarations to use for the generated factory
+ :param FACTORY_CLASS: Alternate base class (instead of :class:`Factory`)
-.. function:: simple_generate(klass, create, **kwargs)
-.. function:: simple_generate_batch(klass, create, size, **kwargs)
+.. function:: simple_generate(klass, create, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
+.. function:: simple_generate_batch(klass, create, size, FACTORY_CLASS=None, **kwargs)
Create a factory for :obj:`klass` using declarations passed in kwargs;
return an instance generated from that factory according to the :obj:`create` flag,
@@ -1290,5 +1313,6 @@ extracting instances from them:
:param bool create: Whether to build (``False``) or create (``True``) instances
:param int size: Number of instances to generate
:param kwargs: Declarations to use for the generated factory
+ :param FACTORY_CLASS: Alternate base class (instead of :class:`Factory`)