pytest-mongo
What is this?
This is a pytest plugin, that enables you to test your code that relies on a running MongoDB database. It allows you to specify fixtures for MongoDB process and client.
How to use
Plugin contains two fixtures
- mongodb - it's a client fixture that has functional scope, and which cleans MongoDB at the end of each test.
- mongo_proc - session scoped fixture, that starts MongoDB instance at the first use and stops at the end of the tests.
- mongo_noproc - a no process fixture, that's connecting to already running mongodb instance. For example on dockerized test environments, or CI providing mongodb services
Simply include one of these fixtures into your tests fixture list.
You can also create additional MongoDB client and process fixtures if you'd need to:
from pytest_mongo import factories
mongo_my_proc = factories.mongo_proc(
port=None, logsdir='/tmp')
mongo_my = factories.mongodb('mongo_my_proc')
Note
Each MongoDB process fixture can be configured in a different way than the others through the fixture factory arguments.
Connecting to already existing mongodb database
Some projects are using already running MongoDB servers (ie on docker instances).
In order to connect to them, one would be using the mongo_noproc
fixture.
mongo_external = factories.mongodb('mongo_noproc')
By default the mongo_noproc
fixture would connect to MongoDB instance using 27017 port. Standard configuration options apply to it.
These are the configuration options that are working on all levels with the mongo_noproc
fixture:
Configuration
You can define your settings in three ways, it's fixture factory argument, command line option and pytest.ini configuration option. You can pick which you prefer, but remember that these settings are handled in the following order:
Configuration options
Fixture factory argument
Command line option
Configuration option in your pytest.ini file
MongoDB server option | Fixture factory argument | Command line option | pytest.ini option | Noop process fixture | Default |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Path to mongodb exec | executable | --mongo-exec | mongo_exec | no | /usr/bin/mongod |
MongoDB host | host | --mongo-host | mongo_host | 127.0.0.1 | 127.0.0.1 |
MongoDB port | port | --mongo-port | port | 27017 | random |
Path to store logs | logsdir | --mongo-logsdir | mongo_logsdir | no | $TMPDIR |
Additional parameters | params | --mongo-params | mongo_params | no | ย |
MongoDB client's time zone awarness | tz_aware | --mongo-tz-aware | mongo_tz_aware | no | False |
Example usage:
pass it as an argument in your own fixture
mongo_proc = factories.mongo_proc(port=8888)
use
--mongo-port
command line option when you run your testspy.test tests --mongo-port=8888
specify your directory as
mongo_port
in yourpytest.ini
file.To do so, put a line like the following under the
[pytest]
section of yourpytest.ini
:[pytest] mongo_port = 8888
Package resources
- Bug tracker: https://github.com/ClearcodeHQ/pytest-mongo/issues