Deleting a File from Storage after Download - ajax

Question

I'm working on a media asset management system. I want the user to be able to fill out a form with file width, height, extension and colorspace, then transform the image and serve it back as a download.
I can get that to work by responding to the Post-Request with the URL of the newly created file.
What I want is for that file to be deleted after download or after some time.
(Or, preferably, a way to use laravels download() Response, which I apparently can't use inside an Axios/Ajax post request).
Thanks for your help :)

Answer 1

There are two ways you can do this.
Let's assume you have a file in storage/app/download.zip:
1. Because Laravel uses Symfony's HttpFoundation internally, you can use the deleteFileAfterSend method:
public function download()
{
return response()
->download(storage_path('app/download.zip'))
->deleteFileAfterSend(true);
}
2. Create a Terminable Middleware that deletes the file after the download response was prepared.
class StorageDownload
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
return $next($request);
}
public function terminate($request, $response)
{
\Storage::delete('download.zip');
}
}
You'll need to register the middlware and assign it to your route for it to work.
As for triggering the download using JavaScript, something as trivial as setting the window location will work:
axios
.post('files/export/' + file.id, formData)
.then(function() {
window.location = 'files/download/' + file.id
});
Don't worry, this will not navigate away from your current page, it will just trigger the download.

Answer 2

for me , i like to handle this case using cron
you can read details here
add any column to check it's been downloaded or not (e.g status with value 0 or 1)
and you can create accessor on your model to count the date diff
public function getRangeDateAttribute(){
$today = Carbon::now()->startOfDay();
$downloadDate = $this->created_at;
$datediff = $today->diffInDays($downloadDate);
return $datediff
}
then sample code inside task scheduling :
if($media->status == 1 || $media->rangeDate > 7 ){ //checking the status & range date passed specific days you wanted
do whatever you wanted here
}