Broadcast event to Pusher when database notification is created - laravel

Question

This is related to an earlier question I asked: Am I overcomplicating events/listeners/notifications?.
Based on the feedback received on that question, I modified my approach to attempt to do the following:
Fire a database notification.
Listen for a new database notification to be created
Fire an event and broadcast that to pusher.
So first I send the database notification:
Notification::send($this->requestedBy, new SendMonthlySummaryCreatedNotification($fileDownloadUrl, $fileName));
That notification class looks like this:
class SendMonthlySummaryCreatedNotification extends Notification implements ShouldQueue
{
use Queueable;
public $fileDownloadUrl;
public $fileName;
/**
* Create a new notification instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($fileDownloadUrl, $fileName)
{
$this->fileDownloadUrl = $fileDownloadUrl;
$this->fileName = $fileName;
}
/**
* Get the notification's delivery channels.
*
* #param mixed $notifiable
* #return array
*/
public function via($notifiable)
{
return ['database'];
}
/**
* Get the array representation of the notification.
*
* #param mixed $notifiable
* #return array
*/
public function toArray($notifiable)
{
return [
'title' => 'Monthly Summary Complete',
'message' => "{$this->fileName} is ready. ",
'link' => $this->fileDownloadUrl,
'link_text' => 'Click here to download',
'show_toast' => true,
'user_id' => $notifiable->id
];
}
}
I found this example of how to add a $dispatchesEvents property to a model in the docs, which I modified to apply it to a new model I created that extends the DatabaseNotification class, which I learned about on this SO question.
class Notification extends DatabaseNotification
{
use HasFactory;
protected $dispatchesEvents = [
'created' => NotificationCreatedEvent::class
];
public function users()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class, 'notifiable_id');
}
}
Theoretically the above should dispatch an event when my notification is sent, and then I have the NotificationCreatedEvent that I'd like to use to broadcast to pusher:
class NotificationCreatedEvent implements ShouldBroadcast
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;
protected $notification;
/**
* Create a new event instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct(Notification $notification)
{
$this->notification = $notification;
Log::debug($this->notification);
}
/**
* Get the channels the event should broadcast on.
*
* #return \Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel|array
*/
public function broadcastOn()
{
return new PrivateChannel('users.' . $this->notification->notifiable_id);
}
}
The problem is that everything is working up until the NotificationCreatedEvent It doesn't seem to be getting fired. I don't know if I need to do anything in addition to mapping it in my new Notification model, or if it should just work.
My goal is to add a database notification, and then whenever that happens to send it to pusher so I can notify the user in real-time. This seems like it should work, but I'm not seeing anything coming over in pusher.