updated the labstats daemon to check for an extended_info field while waiting on external_id
updated the labstats daemon to check for an extended_info field while waiting on external_id

fixes SPOT-791

this still isn't completely ready for deployment until the external_id
is being used. but i provided an todo and the code required to switch
with the existing code to get the external_id to work once it is ready

uw-it-aca/spotseeker_server,uw-it-aca/spotseeker_server,uw-it-aca/spotseeker_server