Is it possible to selectively skip pytest_report_teststatus()?

[ZChristiansen]

This method runs after every test to create a report. I am grabbing information from that report to then send to a few other methods that call APIs to save the test results to a server. This part is working fine; however, I don't always want to send the execution details to the server.

When I run the tests locally, perhaps troubleshooting or creating new tests, I don't want the results to be sent to the server. If the tests are running in the CICD pipeline, I do want them to be sent.

Is it possible to pass a command line argument that can be used to determine whether or not to continue reporting?

Working code
pytest_report_teststatus(report):
if report.when == "call"
get_data_from_report()
call_api1_to_log_to_server(with_data)

What I want
pytest_report_teststatus(report):
if donot_report is False: # how could I pass this as a command line argument, or as any argument to this method?
if report.when == "call"
get_data_from_report()
call_api1_to_log_to_server(with_data)

run the test
pytest --no-report

where --no-report ends up setting donot_report = true. I know how to add the command line option using pytest_addoption() and a fixture, I can't figure out how to get that value to pass to pytest_report_teststatus()

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

the ask is not clear, the hook itself is part of the common flow, it seems like you want a plugin object you only add to pytest when opted in

[ZChristiansen]

What I have works. Can you provide more clarification as to why not to do it this way?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

You dont have ownership on the config object

If a future change in pytest where to use that attribute name and/or forbid changes to config

Your code would break

[ZChristiansen]

If I replace this code
def pytest_configure(config): config.report_tests = config.getoption("--report-tests")

With this code

@pytest.hookimpl(tryfirst=True)
def pytest_collection_modifyitems(session):
    config.report_tests = session.config.getoption("--report-tests")

Would there still be concerns about ownership of the config object?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Yes, please use the plugin object examples from the documentation as examples

[ZChristiansen]

After some additional research and trial/error, this code works without making changes to config. It uses config.getoption to read the option passed to the command line then performs actions based on that.

def pytest_addoption(parser):
    report = parser.getgroup('report')
    report.addoption("--report-tests", action="store", default="N", help="Enable reporting. Y or N")


@pytest.hookimpl(tryfirst=True)
def pytest_report_teststatus(report, config):
    if config.getoption('--report-tests'.upper() == "Y":
        <do reporting things>