Model Bakery: Smart fixtures for better tests

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Model Bakery offers you a smart way to create fixtures for testing in Django. With a simple and powerful API, you can create many objects with a single line of code.

Installation

pip install model-bakery

Supported Versions

Model Bakery follows the Python and Django release and support cycles. We drop support for Python and Django versions when they reach end-of-life.

Basic usage

# models.py
from django.db import models

class Customer(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    email = models.EmailField()
    age = models.IntegerField()
    is_jards_macale_fan = models.BooleanField()
    bio = models.TextField()
    birthday = models.DateField()
    last_shopping = models.DateTimeField()

# test_models.py
from django.test import TestCase
from model_bakery import baker

class TestCustomerModel(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.customer = baker.make('shop.Customer')
        print(self.customer.__dict__)

"""
{'_state': <django.db.models.base.ModelState object at 0x1129a3240>,
 'age': 3841,
 'bio': 'vUFzMUMyKzlnTyiCxfgODIhrnkjzgQwHtzIbtnVDKflqevczfnaOACkDNqvCHwvtWdLwoiKrCqfppAlogSLECtMmfleeveyqefkGyTGnpbkVQTtviQVDESpXascHAluGHYEotSypSiHvHzFteKIcUebrzUVigiOacfnGdvijEPrZdSCIIBjuXZMaWLrMXyrsUCdKPLRBRYklRdtZhgtxuASXdhNGhDsrnPHrYRClhrSJSVFojMkUHBvSZhoXoCrTfHsAjenCEHvcLeCecsXwXgWJcnJPSFdOmOpiHRnhSgRF',
 'birthday': datetime.date(2019, 12, 3),
 'email': 'rpNATNsxoj@example.com',
 'is_jards_macale_fan': True,
 'id': 1,
 'last_shopping': datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 3, 21, 42, 34, 77019),
 'name': 'qiayYnESvqcYLLBzxpFOcGBIfnQEPx'}
"""

Documentation

For more detailed information, check out the full documentation.

Contributing

As an open-source project, Model Bakery welcomes contributions of many forms:

  • Code patches
  • Documentation improvements
  • Bug reports

Take a look at our contribution guidelines for instructions on how to set up your local environment.

Maintainers

Creator

License

Model Bakery is licensed under Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for more information.