[GitHub] [airflow] ashb commented on a change in pull request #17577: Have the dag_maker fixture (optionally) give SerializedDAGs

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ashb commented on a change in pull request #17577:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/17577#discussion_r690367118



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File path: tests/conftest.py
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@@ -451,49 +451,88 @@ def dag_maker(request):
 
     The dag_maker.create_dagrun takes the same arguments as dag.create_dagrun
 
+    If you want to operate on serialized DAGs, then either pass ``serialized=True` to the ``dag_maker()``
+    call, or you can mark your test/class/file with ``@pytest.mark.need_serialized_dag(True)``. In both of
+    these cases the ``dag`` returned by the context manager will be a lazily-evaluated proxy object to the
+    SerializedDAG.
     """
-    from airflow.models import DAG, DagModel
-    from airflow.utils import timezone
-    from airflow.utils.session import provide_session
-    from airflow.utils.state import State
+    import lazy_object_proxy
 
-    DEFAULT_DATE = timezone.datetime(2016, 1, 1)
+    # IMPORTANT: Delay _all_ imports from `airflow.*` to _inside a method_.
+    # This fixture is "called" early on in the pytest collection process, and
+    # if we import airflow.* here the wrong (non-test) config will be loaded
+    # and "baked" in to various constants
+
+    want_serialized = False
+
+    # Allow changing default serialized behaviour with `@ptest.mark.need_serialized_dag(True)`

Review comment:
       We don't, good call.




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