Maintain contextvars.Context in fixtures and tests

The approach I've taken here is to maintain a contextvars.Context
instance in a contextvars.ContextVar, copying it from the ambient
context whenever we create a new event loop. The fixture setup
and teardown run within that context, and each test function gets
a copy (as if it were created as a new asyncio.Task from within the
fixture task).

Fixes #127.

Author: bcmills

pytest_asyncio/plugin.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 import asyncio
 import contextlib
+import contextvars
 import enum
 import functools
 import inspect
@@ -318,6 +319,8 @@ def _asyncgen_fixture_wrapper(request: FixtureRequest, **kwargs: Any):
         kwargs.pop(event_loop_fixture_id, None)
         gen_obj = func(**_add_kwargs(func, kwargs, event_loop, request))
 
+        context = _event_loop_context.get(None)
+
         async def setup():
             res = await gen_obj.__anext__()  # type: ignore[union-attr]
             return res
@@ -335,9 +338,11 @@ async def async_finalizer() -> None:
                     msg += "Yield only once."
                     raise ValueError(msg)
 
-            event_loop.run_until_complete(async_finalizer())
+            task = _create_task_in_context(event_loop, async_finalizer(), context)
+            event_loop.run_until_complete(task)
 
-        result = event_loop.run_until_complete(setup())
+        setup_task = _create_task_in_context(event_loop, setup(), context)
+        result = event_loop.run_until_complete(setup_task)
         request.addfinalizer(finalizer)
         return result
 
@@ -360,7 +365,10 @@ async def setup():
             res = await func(**_add_kwargs(func, kwargs, event_loop, request))
             return res
 
-        return event_loop.run_until_complete(setup())
+        task = _create_task_in_context(
+            event_loop, setup(), _event_loop_context.get(None)
+        )
+        return event_loop.run_until_complete(task)
 
     fixturedef.func = _async_fixture_wrapper  # type: ignore[misc]
 
@@ -584,6 +592,46 @@ def pytest_pycollect_makeitem_convert_async_functions_to_subclass(
     Session: "session",
 }
 
+# _event_loop_context stores the Context in which asyncio tasks on the fixture
+# event loop should be run. After fixture setup, individual async test functions
+# are run on copies of this context.
+_event_loop_context: contextvars.ContextVar[contextvars.Context] = (
+    contextvars.ContextVar("pytest_asyncio_event_loop_context")
+)
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def _set_event_loop_context():
+    """Set event_loop_context to a copy of the calling thread's current context."""
+    context = contextvars.copy_context()
+    token = _event_loop_context.set(context)
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        _event_loop_context.reset(token)
+
+
+def _create_task_in_context(loop, coro, context):
+    """
+    Return an asyncio task that runs the coro in the specified context,
+    if possible.
+
+    This allows fixture setup and teardown to be run as separate asyncio tasks,
+    while still being able to use context-manager idioms to maintain context
+    variables and make those variables visible to test functions.
+
+    This is only fully supported on Python 3.11 and newer, as it requires
+    the API added for https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/91150.
+    On earlier versions, the returned task will use the default context instead.
+    """
+    if context is not None:
+        try:
+            return loop.create_task(coro, context=context)
+        except TypeError:
+            pass
+    return loop.create_task(coro)
+
+
 # A stack used to push package-scoped loops during collection of a package
 # and pop those loops during collection of a Module
 __package_loop_stack: list[FixtureFunctionMarker | FixtureFunction] = []
@@ -631,7 +679,8 @@ def scoped_event_loop(
             loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
             loop.__pytest_asyncio = True  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
             asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
-            yield loop
+            with _set_event_loop_context():
+                yield loop
             loop.close()
 
     # @pytest.fixture does not register the fixture anywhere, so pytest doesn't
@@ -938,9 +987,16 @@ def wrap_in_sync(
 
     @functools.wraps(func)
     def inner(*args, **kwargs):
+        # Give each test its own context based on the loop's main context.
+        context = _event_loop_context.get(None)
+        if context is not None:
+            # We are using our own event loop fixture, so make a new copy of the
+            # fixture context so that the test won't pollute it.
+            context = context.copy()
+
         coro = func(*args, **kwargs)
         _loop = _get_event_loop_no_warn()
-        task = asyncio.ensure_future(coro, loop=_loop)
+        task = _create_task_in_context(_loop, coro, context)
         try:
             _loop.run_until_complete(task)
         except BaseException:
@@ -1049,7 +1105,8 @@ def event_loop(request: FixtureRequest) -> Iterator[asyncio.AbstractEventLoop]:
     # The magic value must be set as part of the function definition, because pytest
     # seems to have multiple instances of the same FixtureDef or fixture function
     loop.__original_fixture_loop = True  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
-    yield loop
+    with _set_event_loop_context():
+        yield loop
     loop.close()
 
 
@@ -1062,7 +1119,8 @@ def _session_event_loop(
         loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
         loop.__pytest_asyncio = True  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
         asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
-        yield loop
+        with _set_event_loop_context():
+            yield loop
         loop.close()
 
 

tests/async_fixtures/test_async_fixtures_contextvars.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+"""
+Regression test for https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-asyncio/issues/127:
+contextvars were not properly maintained among fixtures and tests.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import sys
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+from contextvars import ContextVar
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@asynccontextmanager
+async def context_var_manager():
+    context_var = ContextVar("context_var")
+    token = context_var.set("value")
+    try:
+        yield context_var
+    finally:
+        context_var.reset(token)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="function")
+async def context_var():
+    async with context_var_manager() as v:
+        yield v
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.xfail(
+    sys.version_info < (3, 11), reason="requires asyncio Task context support"
+)
+async def test(context_var):
+    assert context_var.get() == "value"