How to access property of an object in Laravel PHP? - laravel-5

Question

I am having 2 methods. In one of the method I am making a call to database, a pure and simple one Document::findOrFail($data->id). But this is always returning me null although a record is already persisted. Any idea how to get this simple thing sorted?
public function lockExport(Request $request){
$document = Document::create([
'user_id' => $this->userId(),
'extension' => $extension,
'name' => $filename,
'file_path' => $filepath,
'size' => File::size($filepath . $filename),
'received_at' => Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d')
]);
$isAttachment = false;
Cache::put($token, ['file' => $document->file_path . $document->name . '.' . $document->extension, 'is_attachment' => $isAttachment, 'id' => $document->id], 3);
return $this->downloadlockExport($token);
}
public function downloadlockExport($token)
{
try {
$data = (object) Cache::get($token);
// dd I get the full $data as object
$document = Document::findOrFail($data->id);
// undefined. Above query did not execute.
// Thus, below query failed
$document->update(['downloads' => $document->downloads + 1]);
$content = Crypt::decrypt(File::get($data->file));
return response()->make($content, 200, array(
'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="' . basename($data->file) . '"'
));
} catch (\Exception $e) {
\App::abort(404);
}
}

Answer 1

What you probably would like to do is:
public function lockExport(Request $request){
$document = Document::create([
'user_id' => $this->userId(),
'extension' => $extension,
'name' => $filename,
'file_path' => $filepath,
'size' => File::size($filepath . $filename),
'received_at' => Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d')
]);
$isAttachment = false;
$token = 'mytoken';
Cache::put($token, ['file' => $document->file_path . $document->name . '.' . $document->extension, 'is_attachment' => $isAttachment, 'id' => $document->id], 3);
return $this->downloadlockExport($token);
}
This way you will get your $token in your called function and you will get the $data correctly as I see.
And in the downloadlockExport() function you will have the ID like this:
$document = Document::findOrFail($data->mytoken['id']);
or you can use:
$document = Document::findOrFail($data->$token['id']);
similar with getting the File value:
$content = Crypt::decrypt(File::get($data->$token['file']));