Couldn't write to canonical property about nomenklatura

[pudo]

Can you try setting canonical to only the ID of the other entity?

[davidread]

Yes, that works. I'll update the client. Cheers, D

[davidread]

It worked for that example, but I can't get it to work for a record now :-( It returns 500 errors. Can you check the logs on opennames to see what the problem is?

Here's the code that fails:

import nomenklatura
opennames = nomenklatura.Dataset('public-bodies-uk')
a = opennames.entity_by_name('Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT)')
assert not a.canonical
b = opennames.entity_by_name('Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust')
assert b.canonical
a.__data__['canonical'] = b.id
a.update()
assert a.canonical
aa = opennames.entity_by_name(a.name)
assert aa.canonical