Adding test name to the pytest_runtest_call

[f00dog-x300]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to add to the log the name of the test case that was being run when the test data is being generated. For experimentation purposes, I tried to add the following to the conftest.py file:

import logging

LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def pytest_runtest_call(item, request):
    LOGGER.info(f"running before each test: {request.node.name}")
    
def pytest_runtest_teardown(item, request):
    LOGGER.info(f"running after test: {request.node.name}")

The error message I'm getting is:
Argument(s) {'request'} are declared in the hookimpl but can not be found in the hookspec

which seems to suggest that I'm not supposed to be using it this way.

My question is if there is a way for me to grab the test case name somehow before each test is run. The other way I could think of is going to each test file and trying to create a test fixture that would grab it that way, but thinking that if there are a lot of test files, that's going to be a bit of a pain to implement.

[The-Compiler]

request is a pytest fixture, i.e. exposed via a mechanism you can only access from tests or from other fixtures, but not from hooks (which, you could say, are more low-level in a sense).

However, the item argument of pytest_runtest_call is the test Item - and Item is a subclass of Node, which is what request.node points at (Underlying collection node (depends on current request scope).).

Long story short: item.name should get you there!

[f00dog-x300]

I appreciate it! This is what I was looking for. Is there a way to pass another fixture inside these methods?

[The-Compiler]

No, fixtures only work with tests, not with hooks.