Django Model Factory get or create

Question

I have a Django Model defined like below:

    class CustomModel(models.Model):
        column = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)

Define a Factory for the model

from factory_boy import DjangoModelFactory
class CustomModelFactory(DjangoModelFactory):
    
    column = 'V1'

FACTORY_FOR = CustomModelFactory()

How do i make sure that factory implements get_or_create instead of a create everytime?

Does anyone know how can this be done?

Answer 1

The way to implement this is by structuring your Factory class as follow:

class CustomModelFactory(DjangoModelFactory):
    class Meta:
        django_get_or_create = ('column',)
    column = 'V1'

FACTORY_FOR = CustomModel