Django decorator to skip fixtures in tests

Question

Is there a decorator in Django that would allow to run the test function without applying fixtures?
Something like:

from django.test import TestCase

class TestSomething(TestCase):
    fixtures = ['test_fixture.json']

    def test_with_fixture(self):
        # test something with fixtures 

    @do_not_use_fixtures
    def test_without_fixtures(self): 
        # test something without fixtures

Perhaps `test_without_fixtures` belongs in a different test case. — Alasdair, Apr 12 '18 at 15:01

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '18 at 15:38

Django's TestCase loads the fixtures once for the class for performance reasons. Therefore it isn't possible to run a test method without fixtures.

It might be possible with TransactionTestCase, but you'd have to dive into the Django internals to do this, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Django decorator to skip fixtures in tests

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