Allow using pytest-recording with a command-line flag only

[Peque]

It seems like right now you need to define which functions will make use of vcr with a decorator. It would be great if there was a way to automatically enable vcr for all tests without requiring any change in the source code.

For example, having a flag like pytest --vcr would automatically enable VCR for all requests.

This way, tests would run in any environment without vcr nor pytest-recording installed (i.e.: CI/CD/deployment) and, for those wanting to accelerate local testing, it would be as simple as installing the packages and adding the --vcr flag.

Not sure this is even possible. 🤷 😄

[Stranger6667]

Hi!

Yep, it could be a new CLI option that would work inside this condition elif vcr_markers or enable_recording:

This feature should be relatively straightforward to implement, I don't have the capacity to work on it myself but I will assist with reviews. I see the following steps:

• Extend pytest_addoption with a boolean option (similar to --disable-recording there)
• Create a fixture enable_recording (similar to this)
• Use the new enable_recording fixture inside vcr - elif vcr_markers or enable_recording:
• Check that --disable-recording and --enable-recording are not used together (e.g. inside these fixture definitions)
• Changelog entry
• A test to verify this CLI option works + a test for conflicting options (as per notes above)
• Document this flag in README