[TIP] how to access the test discovery protocol programmatically in pytest

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

Hi Chris,

you can just do what the terminal plugin does

the pytest_collection_finish(session) hook can access session.items

session.items is are the actual tests (i.e. the leaves of the collection 
tree)

note that for finding cases where collection fails you will also need 
the pytest_collectreport(report) hook


if you use pytest.main you can just pass in a object with methods that 
follow the call signatures i have (can be a module or a instance)

-- Ronny

On 10/02/2012 10:29 PM, Pella,Chris wrote:
> We are calling pytest.main to run tests from our own home-grown
> framework. I understand this is supposed to be an api-less framework,
> but is there a way to access the equivalent results to running py.test
> –collectonly other than redirecting the output to a file and reading the
> file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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