{"id":401,"date":"2012-09-30T20:53:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dashdrum.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2012-09-30T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:53:50","slug":"quick-post-django-factory-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dashdrum.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/quick-post-django-factory-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Post – Django Factory Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using factoryboy<\/a> in my tests as of late. It’s a nice tool to create test data in a programmatic way – no fixtures.<\/p>\n

A factory includes a Sequence class that can be used to create unique field values with each instance. The examples I’ve seen use something like this:<\/p>\n

title = factory.Sequence(lambda n: 'Event ' + n)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Which will create successive records with titles like “Event 0”, “Event 1″, Event 2”, etc.<\/p>\n
The variable n<\/code> is a string type by default, but I wanted to use it as an integer – in this case to set a value to an Integer field:<\/p>\n
capacity = factory.Sequence(lambda n: n * 10)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
However, this instead put 10 ones in the field, instead of the number held in n<\/code> times 10.<\/p>\n
A quick perusing of the documentation here<\/a> showed that the Sequence class takes a second parameter after the function that indicates the desired type for n<\/code>.  Adding int<\/code> to the end of the call makes it work much better.<\/p>\n
capacity = factory.Sequence(lambda n: n * 10,int)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now the field holds a multiple of 10.<\/p>\n
Want a more complicated example?  Here I assign a date field that is n<\/code> nubmer of days after the current date.<\/p>\n
event_date = factory.Sequence(lambda n:(datetime.now() + timedelta(days=n)).date(), int)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been using factoryboy in my tests as of late. It’s a nice tool to create test data in a programmatic way – no fixtures. A factory includes a Sequence class that can be used to create unique field values with each instance. The examples I’ve seen use something like this: title = factory.Sequence(lambda n: … <\/p>\n
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