[pytest-dev] Customising repr() output for super-expressions of failed assertions

[Joep Schuurkes]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 10:25 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:02:01PM +1200, Craig de Stigter wrote:
> > This output isn't terribly useful at present. We'd like to automatically
> > dump the request body (`r.content`) in the output, wherever it's a django
> > response object, to aid debugging.
>
> It'd be cool if this were possible with hooks (I'm not sure whether it is)
> -
> but FWIW, what I've done so far in such situations is "print(r.content)"
> in the
> test. That way, pytest shows you the output when a test failed, but hides
> it
> for passing tests.
>
> Florian
>
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We use logging similar to the print mentioned by Florian. I also created a
pytest plugin to have some options for how the generated logs are written
to file: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-logfest/

Regards,
Joep
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