Sickle

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May 17, 2020

- method for record metadata extraction has been extracted (``Record.get_metadata()``) to make subclassing easier
(https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/pull/38)
- retryable HTTP status codes and default wait time between retries can be customized (https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/issues/21 https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/pull/41)
- retry logic has been fixed: ``max_retries`` parameter now refers to no. of retries, not counting the initial request anymore
- the default number of HTTP retries has been set to 0 (= no retries)
- fix for https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/pull/39

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January 12, 2020

- fix: repr methods where causing an exception on Python 3 (https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/issues/30)

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October 2, 2018

- fix: resumption token with empty body indicates last response (https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/issues/25)

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April 8, 2018

- fix unicode problems (issues 20 & 22)

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August 11, 2017

- missing datestamp and identifier elements in record header don't break harvesting
- lxml resolve_entities disabled (http://lxml.de/FAQ.htmlhow-do-i-use-lxml-safely-as-a-web-service-endpoint)

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November 13, 2016

- it is now possible to pass any keyword arguments to requests
- the encoding used to decode the server response can be overridden