`factory-boy` vs `model-bakery`

conftest.py

from __future__ import annotations

import itertools

import pytest
from model_bakery import baker

from .factories import ActivityFactory


@pytest.fixture
def activity_factory(db):
    """
    Test fixture using externally defined factory for Activity model.
    """

    return ActivityFactory()


@pytest.fixture
def activity_baker(faker, db):
    """
    Test fixture for Activity model using `model-bakery`. No need for defining any
    other files or classes to accomplish the same thing as above.
    
    `model-bakery` automatically introspects the Model and generates dummy values
    for any required field. To reach parity with the `ActivityFactory`, we will explicitly
    set the `description` and `price` as well, since `model-bakery` would normally ignore 
    them (`null` and/or `blank` being equal to `True`).
    """

    return baker.make(
        "activities.Activity",
        category=itertools.cycle(Activity.CATEGORY_CHOICES),
        description=faker.word(),
        price=faker.pyfloat(left_digits=4, right_digits=2, positive=True)
    )

factories.py

from __future__ import annotations

from factory import Faker
from factory.django import DjangoModelFactory
from factory.fuzzy import FuzzyChoice

from .models import Activity


class ActivityFactory(DjangoModelFactory):
    class Meta:
        model = Activity

    description = Faker("word")
    category = FuzzyChoice(Activity.CATEGORY_CHOICES, getter=lambda c: c[0])
    price = Faker("pyfloat", left_digits=4, right_digits=2, positive=True)

models.py

from __future__ import annotations

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _


class Activity(models.Model):
    CATEGORY_CHOICES = (
        ("A", _("Angling")),
        ("H", _("Hunting")),
        ("S", _("School")),
        ("CB", _("Cast N Blast")),
        ("T", _("Transportation")),
        ("M", _("Misc")),
        ("O", _("Other")),
    )

    name = models.CharField(max_length=255, help_text=_("The name of the activity."))
    description = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True)
    category = models.CharField(choices=CATEGORY_CHOICES, max_length=255)
    price = models.DecimalField(decimal_places=2, default=0.0, max_digits=7, null=True)

requirements.in:

django
factory-boy
faker
model-bakery
pytest