Improper value rendered in the template about django-address HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi there, have you tried rendering the field like this: {{ form.address_field }}? The Django documentation recommends rendering fields without .value.

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Oh hang, on I understand what you're after; you probably want just the value without the input tags in order to do some custom rendering. Yep, you'll be getting the PK because the AddressField is inherits directly from ForeignKey. Give me a minute and I'll hunt down a way to get the rendered string instead of the PK.

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Okay, so, after a little investigation it seems getting the PK back from a call to value is the expected behaviour. This makes sense, as the value in the case of models is the PK (there could be a number of models with the same string representation but different PKs).

To get a string representation of the address from the form field you can access the model object from the initial data: {{ form.initial.address_field }}. I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it should work.

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I tried your suggestion but it still returns a pk.

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I've modified the example site in example_site to show you a working implementation of my suggestion. I'm guessing you might be setting the initial value to a PK instead of an Address object if it still gives you a PK from the initial dictionary.

In any case, as I said, getting a PK from value is expected behaviour from Django's ModelChoiceField. There are other ways of getting a string representation of the field, see here for an example. As such, this is not actually an issue with django-address, so I'll close this issue.

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