gistfile1.py

etamax_cassette = pytest.mark.betamax_cassette


class TestGitHubAPI:
    def test_user(self, session, vcr):
        vcr.use_cassette('user')
        resp = session.get('https://api.github.com/user',
                             auth=('user', 'pass'))
        assert resp.json()['login'] is not None

    @betamax_cassette("repo")
    def test_repo(self, session):
        resp = session.get(
            'https://api.github.com/repos/sigmavirus24/github3.py'
            )
        assert resp.json()['owner'] != {}

# or if we want to use recording for each method with automatically
# named cassettes

@pytest.mark.usefixtures("betamax_per_method")  # use method-named cassettes
class TestGitHubAPIAuto:
    def test_login(self, session):  # use cassete TestGitHubAPIAuto.login
        resp = session.get('https://api.github.com/user',
                             auth=('user', 'pass'))
        assert resp.json()['login'] is not None
        
    def test_repo(self, session): # use cassette TestGitHubAPIAuto.repo
        resp = session.get(
            'https://api.github.com/repos/sigmavirus24/github3.py'
            )
        assert resp.json()['owner'] != {}

So in the case of github3.py (my main use-case of betamax), I store a requests session on the object, i.e.,

import github3

g = github3.GitHub()
g._session

What I started doing was:

class TestGitHub(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.gh = github3.GitHub()
        self.session = self.gh._session

    def test_get_user(self):
        with Betamax(self.session).use_cassette('TestGitHub.get_user'):
            u = self.gh.user('hpk42')
            assert u.login == 'hpk42'
            # etc.

How could fixtures help in this case?