def search(self, regex):
        try:
            spec = {'$or': [{'data.content'    : {'$regex': regex, '$options': 'im'}},
                            {'data.description': {'$regex': regex, '$options': 'im'}}]}
            fields = {'_id': 0}
            cur = self.db.docs.find(spec, fields)
        except Exception as e:
            raise DatabaseException(e)
        return [Document(**row) for row in cur]
def encode(value):
    if isinstance(value, bytes):
        value = value.decode(errors="surrogateescape")

    for char in ("\\", "\n", "\t"):
        value = value.replace(
            char, char.encode(encoding="unicode-escape").decode()
        )

    return value