Pulp

+1 to not having pulpcore or pulpcore-plugin unit tests depend on pulp_file.

I agree. I did not like using FileContent when writing the test linked above. The main problem is that there seems to be no 'official' way to create models for testing in Django (see https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/7835 for example)

In the linked example, we could get away with using the base Content class. But in general using Content only:

• won't detect cases that have a missing `.cast()`
• won't help to test code that needs natural keys (stages)
• won't help to test code (like stages) that has to deal with multiple content types

Currently, I don't have a good solution for this problem.

PR is at https://github.com/pulp/pulp/pull/3855. As said, this does not solve the more generic problem how to write unit tests with multiple non-trivial (content) models.