Request: supporting Tortoise ORM

[jamesbraza]

The problem

I came from a company that uses SQLAlchemy + factory_boy, and I loved it. Now, I have joined a company that uses Tortoise ORM. It would be nice to continue using factory_boy, as it's useful.

I see as of https://github.com/FactoryBoy/factory_boy/releases/tag/3.3.0, the ORMS docs (link) don't mention Tortoise ORM.

Proposed solution

It would be nice to either:

• Add basic support for Tortoise ORM to factory_boy, and document it in the ORMs page
• Document on how to use the currently existing Tortoise ORM with factory_boy in the ORMs page

Extra notes

None at this time

[rbarrois]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion.
I do not think any of the maintainers use Tortoise ORM — and I'm not too keen on adding support for every ORM under the sun.
We're already stretched somewhat thin, so I'm not too keen on adding a further maintenance load on ourselves, I'm sorry.

However, the second option you suggest is interesting: we could describe a TortoiseModelFactory as an example in an How to create a base factory for another ORM document!

Do you have some details as to how Tortoise handles:

• Building instances (without saving them to the database);
• Creating instances in the database;
• SQL session management;
• The get_or_create pattern?