Use NamedTuple for pytest_report_teststatus return value (#10972)

Closes #10872

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Co-authored-by: Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus@gmail.com>

AUTHORS

@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ Rafal Semik
 Raquel Alegre
 Ravi Chandra
 Robert Holt
+Roberto Aldera
 Roberto Polli
 Roland Puntaier
 Romain Dorgueil

changelog/10872.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Update test log report annotation to named tuple and fixed inconsistency in docs for :hook:`pytest_report_teststatus` hook.

doc/en/reference/reference.rst

@@ -956,6 +956,12 @@ TestReport
     :show-inheritance:
     :inherited-members:
 
+TestShortLogReport
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: pytest.TestShortLogReport()
+    :members:
+
 _Result
 ~~~~~~~
 

src/_pytest/hookspec.py

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from _pytest.reports import TestReport
     from _pytest.runner import CallInfo
     from _pytest.terminal import TerminalReporter
+    from _pytest.terminal import TestShortLogReport
     from _pytest.compat import LEGACY_PATH
 
 
@@ -806,7 +807,7 @@ def pytest_report_collectionfinish(  # type:ignore[empty-body]
 @hookspec(firstresult=True)
 def pytest_report_teststatus(  # type:ignore[empty-body]
     report: Union["CollectReport", "TestReport"], config: "Config"
-) -> Tuple[str, str, Union[str, Mapping[str, bool]]]:
+) -> "TestShortLogReport | Tuple[str, str, Union[str, Tuple[str, Mapping[str, bool]]]]":
     """Return result-category, shortletter and verbose word for status
     reporting.
 

src/_pytest/terminal.py

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from typing import Dict
 from typing import Generator
 from typing import List
 from typing import Mapping
+from typing import NamedTuple
 from typing import Optional
 from typing import Sequence
 from typing import Set
@@ -112,6 +113,26 @@ class MoreQuietAction(argparse.Action):
         namespace.quiet = getattr(namespace, "quiet", 0) + 1
 
 
+class TestShortLogReport(NamedTuple):
+    """Used to store the test status result category, shortletter and verbose word.
+    For example ``"rerun", "R", ("RERUN", {"yellow": True})``.
+
+    :ivar category:
+        The class of result, for example ``“passed”``, ``“skipped”``, ``“error”``, or the empty string.
+
+    :ivar letter:
+        The short letter shown as testing progresses, for example ``"."``, ``"s"``, ``"E"``, or the empty string.
+
+    :ivar word:
+        Verbose word is shown as testing progresses in verbose mode, for example ``"PASSED"``, ``"SKIPPED"``,
+        ``"ERROR"``, or the empty string.
+    """
+
+    category: str
+    letter: str
+    word: Union[str, Tuple[str, Mapping[str, bool]]]
+
+
 def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
     group = parser.getgroup("terminal reporting", "Reporting", after="general")
     group._addoption(
@@ -548,10 +569,11 @@ class TerminalReporter:
     def pytest_runtest_logreport(self, report: TestReport) -> None:
         self._tests_ran = True
         rep = report
-        res: Tuple[
-            str, str, Union[str, Tuple[str, Mapping[str, bool]]]
-        ] = self.config.hook.pytest_report_teststatus(report=rep, config=self.config)
-        category, letter, word = res
+
+        res = TestShortLogReport(
+            *self.config.hook.pytest_report_teststatus(report=rep, config=self.config)
+        )
+        category, letter, word = res.category, res.letter, res.word
         if not isinstance(word, tuple):
             markup = None
         else:

src/pytest/__init__.py

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ from _pytest.reports import TestReport
 from _pytest.runner import CallInfo
 from _pytest.stash import Stash
 from _pytest.stash import StashKey
+from _pytest.terminal import TestShortLogReport
 from _pytest.tmpdir import TempPathFactory
 from _pytest.warning_types import PytestAssertRewriteWarning
 from _pytest.warning_types import PytestCacheWarning
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ __all__ = [
     "TempPathFactory",
     "Testdir",
     "TestReport",
+    "TestShortLogReport",
     "UsageError",
     "WarningsRecorder",
     "warns",