Deputy

This document provides the API references for the deputies in the database.

API

class models.Deputy

A deputy is a person that at some point was part of the parliament.

All the fields of this model are retrieved from parliament website using a crawler.

name

The name of the person.

birthday

Birthday of the person. May be null if it is not in the official database.

party

A foreign key to the party the deputy belongs. This is a cached version, the correct

version is always obtained from the mandate the deputy is.

is_active

A bool telling if the deputy is active or not. This is a cached version, the correct value is always obtained from the last mandate the deputy is.

get_absolute_url()

Returns the url of this entity in parliament website.

update()

Updates the party and is_active using the deputies’ last mandate information. This only has to be called when the deputy has a new mandate.