Release Notes

New Features

Add support for requesting LineString polygon for ArcGISRESTful.
Add a new argument called distance to ArcGISRESTful.oids_bygeom
for specifying the buffer distance from the input geometry for getting features.

Breaking Changes

Drop support for Python 3.6 since many of the dependencies such as xarray and pandas have done so.
Remove async_requests function, since it has been packaged as a
new Python library called AsyncRetriever.
Refactor MatchCRS. Now, it should be instantiated by providing the
in and out CRSs like so: MatchCRS(in_crs, out_crs). Then its methods, namely, geometry, bounds and coords, can be called. These methods now have only one input, geometry.
Change input and output types of MatchCRS.coords from tuple of
lists of coordinates to list of (x, y) coordinates.
ArcGISRESTful now has a new argument, layer, for specifying the
layer number (int). Now, the target layer should either be a part of base_url or be passed with layer argument.
Move the spatial_relation argument from ArcGISRESTful class to
oids_bygeom method, since that's where it's applicable.

Refactor ArcGISRESTfulBase class to reduce its code complexity and make the service initialization logic much simpler. The class is faster since it makes less requests during the initialization process.
Add pydantic as a new dependency that takes care of
ArcGISRESTfulBase validation.
Use persistent caching for all send/receive requests that can
significantly improve the network response time.
Explicitly include all the hard dependencies in setup.cfg.
Set a default value of 1000 for max_nrecords in ArcGISRESTfulBase.
Use dataclass for WMSBase and WFSBase since support for Python
3.6 is dropped.