Django percentage field

There's an easy alternative for this task. You can use MaxValueValidator and MinValueValidator for this.

Here's how you can do this:

from django.db import models    
from django.core.validators import MinValueValidator, MaxValueValidator
        
PERCENTAGE_VALIDATOR = [MinValueValidator(0), MaxValueValidator(100)]
        
class RatingModel(models.Model):
    ...
    rate_field = models.DecimalField(max_digits=3, decimal_places=0, default=Decimal(0), validators=PERCENTAGE_VALIDATOR)

I found the solution. I have to check whether the incoming value is a string. If it is, I don't multiply by 100 since it came from the form. See below:

class PercentageField(fields.FloatField):
    widget = fields.TextInput(attrs={"class": "percentInput"})

    def to_python(self, value):
        val = super(PercentageField, self).to_python(value)
        if is_number(val):
            return val/100
        return val

    def prepare_value(self, value):
        val = super(PercentageField, self).prepare_value(value)
        if is_number(val) and not isinstance(val, str):
            return str((float(val)*100))
        return val