Pytest: XFail with condition that requires fixture

[david-fliguer-ws]

Hi everyone, I have the following scenario

I want to set testing as XFail with condition depending on results of an API call to JIRA, however I would like to perform my authentication against JIRA only once before all the tests, so I do it in a fixture of scope session defined in conftest.py, but the problem is that if in a test I have a marker of @pytest.mark.xfail, I can't access the value that the fixture of scope session returns

Any idea of how to deal with this cases ?

Thanks and let me know if you need more detail about the scenario

[asottile]

you can xfail at runtime with pytest.xfail:

def test(fix):
    if do_something(fix):
        pytest.xfail('expected failure for Y reason')

[david-fliguer-ws]

Hi,

Yes but if I understand correctly in that case the test will stop running and the result will be XFail

I want the regular XFail behavior where:

1) Test runs completely
2) If test fails then the result is XFail
3) If test passes then the result is XPass

Is it possible to achieve this ?

[david-fliguer-ws]

I was thinking of maybe in the setup of the test (Where I have already available the fixture) add dynamically the marker of XFail, but I am not sure how to do it

[asottile]

ah yes, I see what you mean, try this?

@pytest.fixture
def fix():
    return True

def test(fix, request):
    if fix:
        request.node.add_marker(pytest.mark.xfail)
    ...

[david-fliguer-ws]

Seems that might be worth checking, will try and update you

Thanks !!!!

[Zac-HD]

Closing this as inactive - hopefully it worked!