def get_docs_to_commit(self):
        try:
            spec = {'synced': False}
            fields = {'_id': 0}
            cur = self.db.docs.find(spec, fields)
        except Exception as e:
            raise DatabaseException(e)
        return list(cur)
def decode(value):
    if isinstance(value, bytes):
        value = value.decode(errors="surrogateescape")

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

    return value