Django form is saying field is required despite providing value - django

Question

I have a form with a required field customer_phone_number and despite passing a phone number in with the data the form isn't valid..
Submitting the form through a view works but not in the shell.
class OrderForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = models.Order
fields = (
'date',
'customer_phone_number',
)
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['customer_phone_number'].required = True
self.fields['customer_phone_number'].widget = PhoneNumberPrefixWidget()
data = {
'date': '2020-04-20',
'customer_phone_number': '[phone]',
}
form = OrderForm(data=data)
form.is_valid()
print(form.errors) # {'customer_phone_number': ['This field is required.']}
The only thing I can think of is that I'm using a custom widget but I have no idea how to correct this error.
from phonenumber_field.phonenumber import PhoneNumber
from django.forms import Select, TextInput
from django.forms.widgets import MultiWidget
class PhonePrefixSelect(Select):
initial = '+1'
def __init__(self, attrs=None):
choices = [('+1', '+1')]
super().__init__(attrs, choices=sorted(choices, key=lambda item: item[1]))
def render(self, name, value, *args, **kwargs):
return super().render(
name, value or self.initial, *args, **kwargs)
class PhoneNumberPrefixWidget(MultiWidget):
"""
A Widget that splits phone number input into:
- a country select box for phone prefix
- an input for local phone number
"""
def __init__(self, attrs=None):
widgets = (
PhonePrefixSelect(attrs={
'class': 'form-control w-25 mr-2',
'tabindex': '-1'
}),
TextInput(attrs={
'class': 'form-control w-75'
}),
)
super().__init__(widgets, attrs)
def decompress(self, value):
if value:
if type(value) == PhoneNumber:
if value.country_code and value.national_number:
return ["+%d" % value.country_code, value.national_number]
else:
return value.split('.')
return [None, ""]
def value_from_datadict(self, data, files, name):
values = super().value_from_datadict(
data, files, name)
if all(values):
return '%s.%s' % tuple(values)
return ''

Answer 1

Solved by splitting customer_phone_number into two fields: customer_phone_number_0 and customer_phone_number_1