From 34f36c6a4842ef7b4b4baf9bc97213a5cbb918af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasileios Karakasis Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:07:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note on limitations of testcase serialization Signed-off-by: Vasileios Karakasis --- docs/manpage.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manpage.rst b/docs/manpage.rst index 0dfc2f390..5d107a5de 100644 --- a/docs/manpage.rst +++ b/docs/manpage.rst @@ -731,6 +731,10 @@ Options controlling ReFrame execution .. note:: This option will not work with the :ref:`test generation options `. + .. note:: + ReFrame serializes test cases to JSON inside their respective stage directory and restores them from there. + As a result, any custom user attributes that are not natively representable in JSON, such as dictionaries with non-string keys, may not be restored correctly. + .. versionadded:: 3.4 .. versionchanged:: 3.6.1