Data-based fixtures

[mehcode]

I've seen numerous factory-based and class-based fixtures. I'm thinking of something along the lines of a JSON / YAML / etc. file that stores the table data and can be loaded and dumped using a simple python API.

Close to django's implementation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/

[kvesteri]

This is a could idea, however I think in optimal scenario this should be an extension for factory_boy (by far the best fixture package for SQLAlchemy). JSON and YAML based fixtures can only contain a subset of functionality that factory_boy contains.

How about just contributing to: https://github.com/rbarrois/factory_boy and adding a feature there to load the factories from YAML or JSON file?

[mehcode]

Great idea. Posted an issue over at FactoryBoy/factory_boy#73.