document test if style output of --collect-only output with -q

[fontealpina]

Currently the --collect-only option shows the collected tests in a tree style presentation.
I was wondering if there is a way to show the collected tests list with the -v style, of course without the test result.
This would be useful to compare the output of --collect-only with the output of other runs of the tests.

[nicoddemus]

It is not quite clear to me what you mean @fontealpina, would you mind add more details? Thanks!

[fontealpina]

Let's suppose to have a test:

class TestSuite():

    def test_case_01(self):
        assert True

    def test_case_02(self):
        assert True

Running the test with pytest -v the output is:

collected 2 items                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

test_path/test.py::TestSuite::test_case_01 PASSED
test_path/test.py::TestSuite::test_case_02 PASSED

====================== 2 passed in 0.01 seconds =======================

Running pytest with pytest --collect-only the output is:

collected 2 items                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
<Module 'test.py'>
  <Class 'TestSuite'>
    <Instance '()'>
      <Function 'test_case_01'>
      <Function 'test_case_02'>

==================== no tests ran in 0.00 seconds =====================

I was wondering how it would be possible instead to get with pytest --collect-only an output like:

collected 2 items                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

test_path/test.py::TestSuite::test_case_01 
test_path/test.py::TestSuite::test_case_02
==================== no tests ran in 0.00 seconds =====================

[The-Compiler]

That seems useful to easily copy test IDs to select individual tests too.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

thats supported with -q for just test ids and -qq for just test filenames

[fontealpina]

@RonnyPfannschmidt Thanks

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

closing as it seems to be answered

[twmr]

Thx @fontealpina for creating this ticket! Is this documented in our docs? If not, we should change that.

[fontealpina]

@Thisch I have just checked and actually seems it is missing.