Configuration

Default configuration:

[tool.inline-snapshot]
hash-length=15
default-flags=["report"]
default-flags-tui=["create", "review"]
format-command=""
show-updates=false

[tool.inline-snapshot.shortcuts]
review=["review"]
fix=["create","fix"]
  • hash-length: specifies the length of the hash used by external() in the code representation. This does not affect the hash length used to store the data. The hash should be long enough to avoid hash collisions.

  • default-flags: defines which flags should be used if there are no flags specified with --inline-snapshot=.... You can also use the environment variable INLINE_SNAPSHOT_DEFAULT_FLAGS=... to specify the flags and to override those in the configuration file.

  • default-flags-tui: defines which flags should be used if you run pytest in an interactive terminal. inline-snapshot creates all snapshots by default in this case and asks when there are values to change. This feature requires cpython>=3.11

Note

The default flags are different if you use cpython<3.11 due to some technical limitations: 

[tool.inline-snapshot]
default-flags=["short-report"]
default-flags-tui=["short-report"]

  • shortcuts: allows you to define custom commands to simplify your workflows. --fix and --review are defined by default, but this configuration can be changed to fit your needs.

  • storage-dir: allows you to define the directory where inline-snapshot stores data files such as external snapshots. By default, it will be <pytest_config_dir>/.inline-snapshot, where <pytest_config_dir> is replaced by the directory containing the Pytest configuration file, if any. External snapshots will be stored in the external subfolder of the storage directory.

  • format-command: allows you to specify a custom command which is used to format the python code after code is changed. 

    [tool.inline-snapshot]
format-command="ruff format --stdin-filename {filename}"
    The placeholder {filename} can be used to specify the filename if it is needed to find the correct formatting options for this file.

    Important

    The command should not format the file on disk. The current file content (with the new code changes) is passed to stdin and the formatted content should be written to stdout.

    You can also use a | if you want to use multiple commands. 

    [tool.inline-snapshot]
format-command="ruff check --fix-only --stdin-filename {filename} | ruff format --stdin-filename {filename}"

  • show-updates: shows updates in reviews and reports.