Add async_stub method

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Releases
 ========
 
 
+3.8.0 (unreleased)
+------------------
+* Add ``MockerFixture.async_mock`` method. Thanks `@PerchunPak`_ for the PR.
+
+.. _@PerchunPak: https://github.com/PerchunPak
+
 3.7.0 (2022-01-28)
 ------------------
 

docs/usage.rst

@@ -110,3 +110,7 @@ It may receive an optional name that is shown in its ``repr``, useful for debugg
 
         foo(stub)
         stub.assert_called_once_with('foo', 'bar')
+
+.. seealso::
+
+    ``async_stub`` method, which actually the same as ``stub`` but makes async stub.

src/pytest_mock/plugin.py

@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@
 
 _T = TypeVar("_T")
 
+if sys.version_info[:2] > (3, 7):
+    AsyncMockType = unittest.mock.AsyncMock
+else:
+    import mock
+    AsyncMockType = mock.AsyncMock
+
 
 class PytestMockWarning(UserWarning):
     """Base class for all warnings emitted by pytest-mock."""
@@ -159,6 +165,19 @@ def stub(self, name: Optional[str] = None) -> unittest.mock.MagicMock:
             self.mock_module.MagicMock(spec=lambda *args, **kwargs: None, name=name),
         )
 
+    def async_stub(self, name: Optional[str] = None) -> AsyncMockType:
+        """
+        Create a async stub method. It accepts any arguments. Ideal to register to
+        callbacks in tests.
+
+        :param name: the constructed stub's name as used in repr
+        :return: Stub object.
+        """
+        return cast(
+            unittest.mock.AsyncMock,
+            self.mock_module.AsyncMock(spec=lambda *args, **kwargs: None, name=name),
+        )
+
     class _Patcher:
         """
         Object to provide the same interface as mock.patch, mock.patch.object,

tests/test_pytest_mock.py

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 # Python 3.8 changed the output formatting (bpo-35500), which has been ported to mock 3.0
 NEW_FORMATTING = sys.version_info >= (3, 8)
 
+if sys.version_info[:2] >= (3, 8):
+    from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
+
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def needs_assert_rewrite(pytestconfig):
@@ -232,6 +235,10 @@ def test_failure_message_with_no_name(self, mocker: MagicMock) -> None:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("name", (None, "", "f", "The Castle of aaarrrrggh"))
     def test_failure_message_with_name(self, mocker: MagicMock, name: str) -> None:
         self.__test_failure_message(mocker, name=name)
+
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info[:2] < (3, 8), reason="This Python version doesn't have `AsyncMock`.")
+    def test_async_stub_type(self, mocker: MockerFixture) -> None:
+        assert isinstance(mocker.async_stub(), AsyncMock)
 
 
 def test_instance_method_spy(mocker: MockerFixture) -> None: