MAINT: divers

- enhance docstring;
- add type hint
- add changelog

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Creation of CrawlerRun Records that contain status information about data
   integration of the crawler if the `pycaosdb.ini` contains a `[caoscrawler]`
   with `create_crawler_status_records=True`.
+- The Crawler `synchronize` function now takes list of RecordType names. 
+  Records that have the given names as parents are excluded from inserts or
+  updates
 
 ### Changed ###
 

src/caoscrawler/crawl.py

@@ -823,8 +823,8 @@ class Crawler(object):
                     commit_changes: bool = True,
                     unique_names: bool = True,
                     crawled_data: Optional[list[db.Record]] = None,
-                    no_insert_RTs=Optional[list[str]],
-                    no_update_RTs=Optional[list[str]],
+                    no_insert_RTs: Optional[list[str]] = None,
+                    no_update_RTs: Optional[list[str]] = None,
                     ):
         """
         This function applies several stages: