diff --git a/docs/reference.rst b/docs/reference.rst index 1ebd2fcc..01cf4143 100644 --- a/docs/reference.rst +++ b/docs/reference.rst @@ -1878,71 +1878,37 @@ Once the factory instance has been generated, the method specified in with any arguments specified in the :class:`PostGenerationMethodCall` declaration, by default. -For example, to set a default password on a generated User instance -during instantiation, we could make a declaration for a ``password`` -attribute like below: +For example, using ``PostGenerationMethodCall`` to register created users in an +external system. .. code-block:: python - class UserFactory(factory.Factory): - class Meta: - model = User + class User(models.Model): + name = models.CharField(max_length=191) - username = 'user' - password = factory.PostGenerationMethodCall('set_password', - 'defaultpassword') + def register(self, system, auth_token="ABC"): + self.registration_id = system.register(auth_token) -When we instantiate a user from the ``UserFactory``, the factory -will create a password attribute by calling ``User.set_password('defaultpassword')``. -Thus, by default, our users will have a password set to ``'defaultpassword'``. -.. code-block:: pycon + class UserFactory(factory.DjangoModelFactory): + class Meta: + model = User - >>> u = UserFactory() # Calls user.set_password('defaultpassword') - >>> u.check_password('defaultpassword') - True + name = 'user' + register = factory.PostGenerationMethodCall("register", DefaultRegistry()) If the :class:`PostGenerationMethodCall` declaration contained no arguments or one argument, an overriding value can be passed directly to the method through a keyword argument matching the attribute name. -For example we can override the default password specified in the declaration -above by simply passing in the desired password as a keyword argument to the -factory during instantiation. .. code-block:: pycon - >>> other_u = UserFactory(password='different') # Calls user.set_password('different') - >>> other_u.check_password('defaultpassword') - False - >>> other_u.check_password('different') - True - -.. note:: - - For Django models, unless the object method called by - :class:`PostGenerationMethodCall` saves the object back to the - database, we will have to explicitly remember to save the object back - if we performed a ``create()``. - - .. code-block:: pycon - - >>> u = UserFactory.create() # u.password has not been saved back to the database - >>> u.save() # we must remember to do it ourselves - - - We can avoid this by subclassing from :class:`DjangoModelFactory`, - instead, e.g., - - .. code-block:: python - - class UserFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory): - class Meta: - model = User - - username = 'user' - password = factory.PostGenerationMethodCall('set_password', - 'defaultpassword') - + >>> # DefaultRegistry uses UUID for identifiers. + >>> UserFactory().registration_id + 'edf42c11-0065-43ad-ad3d-78ab7497aaae' + >>> # OtherRegistry uses int for identifiers. + >>> UserFactory(register=OtherRegistry()).registration_id + 123456 .. warning:: In order to keep a consistent and simple API, a :class:`PostGenerationMethodCall` allows *at most one* positional argument; all other parameters should be passed as @@ -1953,8 +1919,8 @@ defaults present in the :class:`PostGenerationMethodCall` declaration. .. code-block:: pycon - >>> UserFactory(password__disabled=True) # Calls user.set_password('', 'sha1', disabled=True) - + >>> # Calls user.register(DefaultRegistry(), auth_token="DEF") + >>> UserFactory(register__auth_token="DEF") Module-level functions ----------------------