[question] objection to adding internal ids for government systems?

[Patrick Connolly]

Any objection to saving internal IDs from the Toronto City Council system in the pupa db, perhaps in the extras column (which all objects seem to have)? For example, meetings get a meetingId in their system, and so do committees (decisionBodyId). In generating direct links to source data, it's seems useful to have these in the pupa database.

Any objection?

Alternatively, we could theoretically store this in the alternative name/identifier field but it seems that only persons and orgs have this, so it would be a bit inconsistent.

Thoughts?

[James McKinney]

Person and Organization (committees) inherit the IdentifierMixin so they'll have an add_identifier method.

Meetings (events) don't, so I guess add to extras in that case.

[James McKinney]

Or make a PR to Pupa to add that mixin, since Popolo's Event schema does have that property.