When a recordset is hydrated, the type and right attribute on each document is a dict rather than an instance of digitalarchive.models.Type or digitalarchive.models.Right

Example:

    >>> from digitalarchive import Document
    >>> docs = Document.match(description="Taiwan Strait Crisis")
    >>> docs.hydrate()
    >>> docs.list[0].type
    [{'id': '34', 'name': 'Telegram'}]
    >>> docs.list[0].rights
    {'id': '4', 'name': 'CWIHP', 'rights': 'The Cold War International History Project welcomes reuse of Digital Archive materials for research and educational purposes. Some documents may be subject to copyright, which  is retained by the rights holders in accordance with US and international copyright laws.  To enquire about this document&#39;s rights status or request permission for commercial use, please contact the Cold War International History Project at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.'}

The .all() method of digitalarchive.matching.ResourceMatcher simply returns the .list attribute of that same class. Instead, .all() should expend the iterator, update .list with its result and then return the list of records.

Currently, users must pass an entire language object to limit searches by language. Adding the ability to simply pass a 639-3 language string would make searches easier.

Logic for parsing and handling searches for digitalarchive.models.Document is spread across digitalarchive.matching and digitalarchive.api. Much of this logic could be moved to an overloaded digitalarchive.models.Document.match method.

Add a serialize method or other mechanism to easily convert DA models into JSON for storage by users or consumption by other applications.

Requirements:

1. Each document model can be serialized:

• Subject
• Language
• Transcript
• Translation
• MediaFile
• Contributor
• Donor
• Coverage
• Collection
• Repository
• Publisher
• Type
• Right
• Classification
• Document
• Theme