Revert changes to dependency on blob package

DESCRIPTION

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Imports:
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
 Suggests:
+    blob,
     data.table,
     DBI,
     future,

R/api_get.R

@@ -75,13 +75,11 @@ api_get <- function(obj) {
 
       if (!DBI::dbExistsTable(fcp, "finbif_cache")) {
 
-        blob <- list()
-
         init <- data.frame(
           hash = character(),
           created = as.POSIXct(numeric()),
           timeout = numeric(),
-          blob = structure(blob, class = "vctrs_vctr")
+          blob = blob::blob()
         )
 
         DBI::dbWriteTable(fcp, "finbif_cache", init)
@@ -412,15 +410,13 @@ append_obj <- function(obj) {
 
     blob <- serialize(obj, NULL)
 
-    blob <- list(blob)
-
     hash <- obj[["hash"]]
 
     db_cache <- data.frame(
       hash = hash,
       created = Sys.time(),
       timeout = obj[["timeout"]],
-      blob = structure(blob, class = "vctrs_vctr")
+      blob = blob::blob(blob)
     )
 
     debug_msg("[", as.character(Sys.time()), "] ", "Adding to cache: ", hash)

codemeta.json

@@ -46,6 +46,18 @@
     }
   ],
   "softwareSuggestions": [
+    {
+      "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
+      "identifier": "blob",
+      "name": "blob",
+      "provider": {
+        "@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
+        "@type": "Organization",
+        "name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
+        "url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
+      },
+      "sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=blob"
+    },
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
       "identifier": "data.table",
@@ -245,7 +257,7 @@
   "applicationCategory": "Biodiversity",
   "isPartOf": "https://species.fi",
   "keywords": ["api", "biodiversity", "biodiversity-informatics", "biodiversity-information", "finbif", "finbif-access", "occurrences", "r-package", "r-programming", "rstats", "species", "specimens", "taxon", "taxonomy", "web-services"],
-  "fileSize": "5374.86KB",
+  "fileSize": "5374.776KB",
   "citation": [
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareSourceCode",