Create SIGRef objects when converting dict to Spot object in the spot object's own __post_init__ method rather than in add_spot.py

server/handlers/api/addspot.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import json
 import logging
 import re
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -15,7 +14,6 @@ from core.lookup_helper import infer_band_from_freq
 from core.prometheus_metrics_handler import api_requests_counter
 from core.sig_utils import get_ref_regex_for_sig
 from core.utils import safe_json_dumps
-from data.sig_ref import SIGRef
 from data.spot import Spot
 
 
@@ -68,14 +66,6 @@ class APISpotHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
             json_spot = tornado.escape.json_decode(post_data)
             spot = Spot(**json_spot)
 
-            # Converting to a spot object this way won't have coped with sig_ref objects, so fix that. (Would be nice to
-            # redo this in a functional style)
-            if spot.sig_refs:
-                real_sig_refs = []
-                for dict_obj in spot.sig_refs:
-                    real_sig_refs.append(json.loads(json.dumps(dict_obj), object_hook=lambda d: SIGRef(**d)))
-                spot.sig_refs = real_sig_refs
-
             # Reject if no timestamp, frequency, dx_call or de_call
             if not spot.time or not spot.dx_call or not spot.freq or not spot.de_call:
                 self.set_status(422)