SetCountry() does not reflect in backend

Question

So practically, i'm importing data over API and saving it like this :

(not all the code but only the relevant)

$addressarray
    ->setCustomAttribute('exact_address_id', $contactaddress['ID'])
    ->setCustomerId($customerrep->getId())
    ->setFirstname($contact['firstname'])
    ->setLastname($contact['lastname'])
    ->setCountryId($contactaddress['Country'])
    ->setRegionId(0)
    ->setPostcode($contactaddress['Postcode'])
    ->setCity($contactaddress['City'])
    ->setTelephone($contact['account']['Phone'])
    ->setFax($contact['account']['Fax'])
    ->setCompany($contactaddress['AccountName'])
    ->setStreet(array($contactaddressstreet))
    ->setVatId($contact['account']['VATNumber']);

    if ($contact['account']['AddressLine1'] == $contactaddress['AddressLine1']) {
    $addressarray->setIsDefaultBilling(true);
    $addressarray->setIsDefaultShipping(true);
    } else {
    $addressarray->setIsDefaultBilling(false);
    $addressarray->setIsDefaultShipping(false);
    }
    try {
    $address->save($addressarray);

And everything seems to work fine , everything is filled in and in the database addresses are created.

BUT

Even though my database table customer_address_entity says 'BE' (which is id for Belgium) under country_id the field itself is empty.

Even more so when i save the customer myself with the address nothing really changes. Its still BE.

Anyone any idea?

Github : Github magento 2 report

Answer 1

Add below code after $address->save and check

$address->setCountryId('BR');
$address->getResource()->saveAttribute($address, 'country_id');