Introduce record_testsuite_property fixture

This exposes the functionality introduced in fa6acdc as a session-scoped fixture.

Plugins that want to remain compatible with the `xunit2`
standard should use this fixture instead of `record_property`.

Fix #5202

changelog/5202.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+New ``record_testsuite_property`` session-scoped fixture allows users to log ``<property>`` tags at the ``testsuite``
+level with the ``junitxml`` plugin.
+
+The generated XML is compatible with the latest xunit standard, contrary to
+the properties recorded by ``record_property`` and ``record_xml_attribute``.

doc/en/reference.rst

@@ -424,6 +424,14 @@ record_property
 
 .. autofunction:: _pytest.junitxml.record_property()
 
+
+record_testsuite_property
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**Tutorial**: :ref:`record_testsuite_property example`.
+
+.. autofunction:: _pytest.junitxml.record_testsuite_property()
+
 caplog
 ~~~~~~
 

doc/en/usage.rst

@@ -458,13 +458,6 @@ instead, configure the ``junit_duration_report`` option like this:
 record_property
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-
-
-
-   Fixture renamed from ``record_xml_property`` to ``record_property`` as user
-   properties are now available to all reporters.
-   ``record_xml_property`` is now deprecated.
-
 If you want to log additional information for a test, you can use the
 ``record_property`` fixture:
 
@@ -522,9 +515,7 @@ Will result in:
 
 .. warning::
 
-    ``record_property`` is an experimental feature and may change in the future.
-
-    Also please note that using this feature will break any schema verification.
+    Please note that using this feature will break schema verifications for the latest JUnitXML schema.
     This might be a problem when used with some CI servers.
 
 record_xml_attribute
@@ -587,55 +578,57 @@ Instead, this will add an attribute ``assertions="REQ-1234"`` inside the generat
             </xs:complexType>
         </xs:element>
 
-LogXML: add_global_property
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+.. warning::
 
+    Please note that using this feature will break schema verifications for the latest JUnitXML schema.
+    This might be a problem when used with some CI servers.
 
+.. _record_testsuite_property example:
 
-If you want to add a properties node in the testsuite level, which may contains properties that are relevant
-to all testcases you can use ``LogXML.add_global_properties``
+record_testsuite_property
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    import pytest
+.. versionadded:: 4.5
 
+If you want to add a properties node at the test-suite level, which may contains properties
+that are relevant to all tests, you can use the ``record_testsuite_property`` session-scoped fixture:
 
-    @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
-    def log_global_env_facts(f):
+The ``record_testsuite_property`` session-scoped fixture can be used to add properties relevant
+to all tests.
 
-        if pytest.config.pluginmanager.hasplugin("junitxml"):
-            my_junit = getattr(pytest.config, "_xml", None)
+.. code-block:: python
 
-        my_junit.add_global_property("ARCH", "PPC")
-        my_junit.add_global_property("STORAGE_TYPE", "CEPH")
+    import pytest
 
 
-    @pytest.mark.usefixtures(log_global_env_facts.__name__)
-    def start_and_prepare_env():
-        pass
+    @pytest.fixture(scope="session", autouse=True)
+    def log_global_env_facts(record_testsuite_property):
+        record_testsuite_property("ARCH", "PPC")
+        record_testsuite_property("STORAGE_TYPE", "CEPH")
 
 
     class TestMe(object):
         def test_foo(self):
             assert True
 
-This will add a property node below the testsuite node to the generated xml:
+The fixture is a callable which receives ``name`` and ``value`` of a ``<property>`` tag
+added at the test-suite level of the generated xml:
 
 .. code-block:: xml
 
-    <testsuite errors="0" failures="0" name="pytest" skips="0" tests="1" time="0.006">
+    <testsuite errors="0" failures="0" name="pytest" skipped="0" tests="1" time="0.006">
       <properties>
         <property name="ARCH" value="PPC"/>
         <property name="STORAGE_TYPE" value="CEPH"/>
       </properties>
       <testcase classname="test_me.TestMe" file="test_me.py" line="16" name="test_foo" time="0.000243663787842"/>
     </testsuite>
 
-.. warning::
+``name`` must be a string, ``value`` will be converted to a string and properly xml-escaped.
+
+The generated XML is compatible with the latest ``xunit`` standard, contrary to `record_property`_
+and `record_xml_attribute`_.
 
-    This is an experimental feature, and its interface might be replaced
-    by something more powerful and general in future versions. The
-    functionality per-se will be kept.
 
 Creating resultlog format files
 ----------------------------------------------------

src/_pytest/junitxml.py

@@ -345,6 +345,45 @@ def add_attr_noop(name, value):
     return attr_func
 
 
+def _check_record_param_type(param, v):
+    """Used by record_testsuite_property to check that the given parameter name is of the proper
+    type"""
+    __tracebackhide__ = True
+    if not isinstance(v, six.string_types):
+        msg = "{param} parameter needs to be a string, but {g} given"
+        raise TypeError(msg.format(param=param, g=type(v).__name__))
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def record_testsuite_property(request):
+    """
+    Records a new ``<property>`` tag as child of the root ``<testsuite>``. This is suitable to
+    writing global information regarding the entire test suite, and is compatible with ``xunit2`` JUnit family.
+
+    This is a ``session``-scoped fixture which is called with ``(name, value)``. Example:
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        def test_foo(record_testsuite_property):
+            record_testsuite_property("ARCH", "PPC")
+            record_testsuite_property("STORAGE_TYPE", "CEPH")
+
+    ``name`` must be a string, ``value`` will be converted to a string and properly xml-escaped.
+    """
+
+    __tracebackhide__ = True
+
+    def record_func(name, value):
+        """noop function in case --junitxml was not passed in the command-line"""
+        __tracebackhide__ = True
+        _check_record_param_type("name", name)
+
+    xml = getattr(request.config, "_xml", None)
+    if xml is not None:
+        record_func = xml.add_global_property  # noqa
+    return record_func
+
+
 def pytest_addoption(parser):
     group = parser.getgroup("terminal reporting")
     group.addoption(
@@ -444,6 +483,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.node_reporters = {}  # nodeid -> _NodeReporter
         self.node_reporters_ordered = []
         self.global_properties = []
+
         # List of reports that failed on call but teardown is pending.
         self.open_reports = []
         self.cnt_double_fail_tests = 0
@@ -632,7 +672,9 @@ def pytest_terminal_summary(self, terminalreporter):
         terminalreporter.write_sep("-", "generated xml file: %s" % (self.logfile))
 
     def add_global_property(self, name, value):
-        self.global_properties.append((str(name), bin_xml_escape(value)))
+        __tracebackhide__ = True
+        _check_record_param_type("name", name)
+        self.global_properties.append((name, bin_xml_escape(value)))
 
     def _get_global_properties_node(self):
         """Return a Junit node containing custom properties, if any.

testing/test_junitxml.py

@@ -1243,6 +1243,53 @@ class Report(BaseReport):
     ), "The URL did not get written to the xml"
 
 
+def test_record_testsuite_property(testdir):
+    testdir.makepyfile(
+        """
+        def test_func1(record_testsuite_property):
+            record_testsuite_property("stats", "all good")
+
+        def test_func2(record_testsuite_property):
+            record_testsuite_property("stats", 10)
+    """
+    )
+    result, dom = runandparse(testdir)
+    assert result.ret == 0
+    node = dom.find_first_by_tag("testsuite")
+    properties_node = node.find_first_by_tag("properties")
+    p1_node = properties_node.find_nth_by_tag("property", 0)
+    p2_node = properties_node.find_nth_by_tag("property", 1)
+    p1_node.assert_attr(name="stats", value="all good")
+    p2_node.assert_attr(name="stats", value="10")
+
+
+def test_record_testsuite_property_junit_disabled(testdir):
+    testdir.makepyfile(
+        """
+        def test_func1(record_testsuite_property):
+            record_testsuite_property("stats", "all good")
+    """
+    )
+    result = testdir.runpytest()
+    assert result.ret == 0
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("junit", [True, False])
+def test_record_testsuite_property_type_checking(testdir, junit):
+    testdir.makepyfile(
+        """
+        def test_func1(record_testsuite_property):
+            record_testsuite_property(1, 2)
+    """
+    )
+    args = ("--junitxml=tests.xml",) if junit else ()
+    result = testdir.runpytest(*args)
+    assert result.ret == 1
+    result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
+        ["*TypeError: name parameter needs to be a string, but int given"]
+    )
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("suite_name", ["my_suite", ""])
 def test_set_suite_name(testdir, suite_name):
     if suite_name: