How to get a single widget to set 2 fields in Django?

Question

Hi, I got a model with 2 fields: latitude and longitude. Right now they're 2 CharFields, but I want to make a custom widget to set it in admin - was thinking about displaying Google Maps, then getting the coordinates of the marker.

But can I have 1 widget (a single map) to set 2 different fields?

Answer 1

Define lat and long fields on your form; set them to use the HiddenInputWidget.

After the init of your form, add another field which contains your custom widget that takes two values.

In the clean method for that added field, set the values of self.cleaned_data['lat'] and self.cleaned_data['lng']

There are probably cleaner ways, but it should work