Renamed the fixture record_xml_property to record_property and adapted logic so that the properties are passed to the TestReport object and thus allow compatibility with pytest-xdist.

AUTHORS

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Brianna Laugher
 Bruno Oliveira
 Cal Leeming
 Carl Friedrich Bolz
+Carlos Jenkins
 Ceridwen
 Charles Cloud
 Charnjit SiNGH (CCSJ)

_pytest/deprecated.py

@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ MARK_PARAMETERSET_UNPACKING = RemovedInPytest4Warning(
     "For more details, see: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/parametrize.html"
 )
 
+RECORD_XML_PROPERTY = (
+    'Fixture renamed from "record_xml_property" to "record_property" as user '
+    'properties are now available to all reporters.\n'
+    '"record_xml_property" is now deprecated.'
+)
+
 COLLECTOR_MAKEITEM = RemovedInPytest4Warning(
     "pycollector makeitem was removed "
     "as it is an accidentially leaked internal api"

_pytest/junitxml.py

@@ -233,31 +233,41 @@ class _NodeReporter(object):
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def record_xml_property(request):
-    """Add extra xml properties to the tag for the calling test.
-    The fixture is callable with ``(name, value)``, with value being automatically
-    xml-encoded.
+def record_property(request):
+    """Add an extra properties the calling test.
+    User properties become part of the test report and are available to the
+    configured reporters, like JUnit XML.
+    The fixture is callable with ``(name, value)``.
     """
     request.node.warn(
         code='C3',
-        message='record_xml_property is an experimental feature',
+        message='record_property is an experimental feature',
     )
-    xml = getattr(request.config, "_xml", None)
-    if xml is not None:
-        node_reporter = xml.node_reporter(request.node.nodeid)
-        return node_reporter.add_property
-    else:
-        def add_property_noop(name, value):
-            pass
 
-        return add_property_noop
+    def append_property(name, value):
+        request.node.user_properties.append((name, value))
+    return append_property
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def record_xml_property(request):
+    """(Deprecated) use record_property."""
+    import warnings
+    from _pytest import deprecated
+    warnings.warn(
+        deprecated.RECORD_XML_PROPERTY,
+        DeprecationWarning,
+        stacklevel=2
+    )
+
+    return record_property(request)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def record_xml_attribute(request):
     """Add extra xml attributes to the tag for the calling test.
-    The fixture is callable with ``(name, value)``, with value being automatically
-    xml-encoded
+    The fixture is callable with ``(name, value)``, with value being
+    automatically xml-encoded
     """
     request.node.warn(
         code='C3',
@@ -442,6 +452,10 @@ class LogXML(object):
         if report.when == "teardown":
             reporter = self._opentestcase(report)
             reporter.write_captured_output(report)
+
+            for propname, propvalue in report.user_properties:
+                reporter.add_property(propname, propvalue)
+
             self.finalize(report)
             report_wid = getattr(report, "worker_id", None)
             report_ii = getattr(report, "item_index", None)

_pytest/nodes.py

@@ -360,6 +360,10 @@ class Item(Node):
         super(Item, self).__init__(name, parent, config, session)
         self._report_sections = []
 
+        #: user properties is a list of tuples (name, value) that holds user
+        #: defined properties for this test.
+        self.user_properties = []
+
     def add_report_section(self, when, key, content):
         """
         Adds a new report section, similar to what's done internally to add stdout and

_pytest/runner.py

@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ def pytest_runtest_makereport(item, call):
         sections.append(("Captured %s %s" % (key, rwhen), content))
     return TestReport(item.nodeid, item.location,
                       keywords, outcome, longrepr, when,
+                      item.user_properties,
                       sections, duration)
 
 
@@ -326,7 +327,8 @@ class TestReport(BaseReport):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, nodeid, location, keywords, outcome,
-                 longrepr, when, sections=(), duration=0, **extra):
+                 longrepr, when, user_properties,
+                 sections=(), duration=0, **extra):
         #: normalized collection node id
         self.nodeid = nodeid
 
@@ -348,6 +350,10 @@ class TestReport(BaseReport):
         #: one of 'setup', 'call', 'teardown' to indicate runtest phase.
         self.when = when
 
+        #: user properties is a list of tuples (name, value) that holds user
+        #: defined properties of the test
+        self.user_properties = user_properties
+
         #: list of pairs ``(str, str)`` of extra information which needs to
         #: marshallable. Used by pytest to add captured text
         #: from ``stdout`` and ``stderr``, but may be used by other plugins

changelog/2770.feature

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+``record_xml_property`` renamed to ``record_property`` and is now compatible with xdist, markers and any reporter.
+``record_xml_property`` name is now deprecated.

doc/en/builtin.rst

@@ -112,10 +112,11 @@ You can ask for available builtin or project-custom
         Inject names into the doctest namespace.
     pytestconfig
         the pytest config object with access to command line opts.
-    record_xml_property
-        Add extra xml properties to the tag for the calling test.
-        The fixture is callable with ``(name, value)``, with value being automatically
-        xml-encoded.
+    record_property
+        Add an extra properties the calling test.
+        User properties become part of the test report and are available to the
+        configured reporters, like JUnit XML.
+        The fixture is callable with ``(name, value)``.
     record_xml_attribute
         Add extra xml attributes to the tag for the calling test.
         The fixture is callable with ``(name, value)``, with value being automatically

doc/en/example/simple.rst

@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ We can run this::
     file $REGENDOC_TMPDIR/b/test_error.py, line 1
       def test_root(db):  # no db here, will error out
     E       fixture 'db' not found
-    >       available fixtures: cache, capfd, capfdbinary, caplog, capsys, capsysbinary, doctest_namespace, monkeypatch, pytestconfig, record_xml_attribute, record_xml_property, recwarn, tmpdir, tmpdir_factory
+    >       available fixtures: cache, capfd, capfdbinary, caplog, capsys, capsysbinary, doctest_namespace, monkeypatch, pytestconfig, record_xml_attribute, record_property, recwarn, tmpdir, tmpdir_factory
     >       use 'pytest --fixtures [testpath]' for help on them.
     
     $REGENDOC_TMPDIR/b/test_error.py:1

doc/en/usage.rst

@@ -220,19 +220,24 @@ To set the name of the root test suite xml item, you can configure the ``junit_s
     [pytest]
     junit_suite_name = my_suite
 
-record_xml_property
+record_property
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 .. versionadded:: 2.8
+.. versionchanged:: 3.5
+
+   Fixture renamed from ``record_xml_property`` to ``record_property`` as user
+   properties are now available to all reporters.
+   ``record_xml_property`` is now deprecated.
 
 If you want to log additional information for a test, you can use the
-``record_xml_property`` fixture:
+``record_property`` fixture:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    def test_function(record_xml_property):
-        record_xml_property("example_key", 1)
-        assert 0
+    def test_function(record_property):
+        record_property("example_key", 1)
+        assert True
 
 This will add an extra property ``example_key="1"`` to the generated
 ``testcase`` tag:
@@ -245,13 +250,42 @@ This will add an extra property ``example_key="1"`` to the generated
       </properties>
     </testcase>
 
+Alternatively, you can integrate this functionality with custom markers:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # content of conftest.py
+
+    def pytest_collection_modifyitems(session, config, items):
+        for item in items:
+            marker = item.get_marker('test_id')
+            if marker is not None:
+                test_id = marker.args[0]
+                item.user_properties.append(('test_id', test_id))
+
+And in your tests:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # content of test_function.py
+
+    @pytest.mark.test_id(1501)
+    def test_function():
+        assert True
+
+Will result in:
+
+.. code-block:: xml
+
+    <testcase classname="test_function" file="test_function.py" line="0" name="test_function" time="0.0009">
+      <properties>
+        <property name="test_id" value="1501" />
+      </properties>
+    </testcase>
+
 .. warning::
 
-    ``record_xml_property`` is an experimental feature, and its interface might be replaced
-    by something more powerful and general in future versions. The
-    functionality per-se will be kept, however.
-
-    Currently it does not work when used with the ``pytest-xdist`` plugin.
+    ``record_property`` is an experimental feature and may change in the future.
 
     Also please note that using this feature will break any schema verification.
     This might be a problem when used with some CI servers.

testing/test_junitxml.py

@@ -863,10 +863,10 @@ def test_record_property(testdir):
         import pytest
 
         @pytest.fixture
-        def other(record_xml_property):
-            record_xml_property("bar", 1)
-        def test_record(record_xml_property, other):
-            record_xml_property("foo", "<1");
+        def other(record_property):
+            record_property("bar", 1)
+        def test_record(record_property, other):
+            record_property("foo", "<1");
     """)
     result, dom = runandparse(testdir, '-rw')
     node = dom.find_first_by_tag("testsuite")
@@ -877,15 +877,15 @@ def test_record_property(testdir):
     pnodes[1].assert_attr(name="foo", value="<1")
     result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
         'test_record_property.py::test_record',
-        '*record_xml_property*experimental*',
+        '*record_property*experimental*',
     ])
 
 
 def test_record_property_same_name(testdir):
     testdir.makepyfile("""
-        def test_record_with_same_name(record_xml_property):
-            record_xml_property("foo", "bar")
-            record_xml_property("foo", "baz")
+        def test_record_with_same_name(record_property):
+            record_property("foo", "bar")
+            record_property("foo", "baz")
     """)
     result, dom = runandparse(testdir, '-rw')
     node = dom.find_first_by_tag("testsuite")