Wrong path when downloading in Backpack CRUD view - laravel

Question

i added an upload field in my CRUD Controller.
Upload works fine and file gets loaded in my /storage/private directory.
Here is filesystems.php file:
'private' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('private')
],
Here are my custom functions in the File.php Model:
public static function boot()
{
parent::boot();
static::deleting(function($file) {
\Storage::disk('private')->delete($file->file);
});
}
public function setFileAttribute($value)
{
$attribute_name = "file";
$disk = "private";
$destination_path = "";
// Cifratura del file
file_put_contents($value->getRealPath(), file_get_contents($value->getRealPath()));
$this->uploadFileToDisk($value, $attribute_name, $disk, $destination_path);
}
And here is my FileCRUDController.php code:
$this->crud->addField(
[ // Upload
'name' => 'file',
'label' => 'File to upload',
'type' => 'upload',
'upload' => true,
'disk' => 'private'
]);
When i try to download the file, however, it tries to fetch it from http://localhost:8000/storage/myfile.png instead of http://localhost:8000/storage/private/myfile.png
What i'm doing wrong? Thank you very much.
I would also like to know if there is a way to hook a custom function instead downloading the file directly from the CRUD view. My files are encrypted and i need a controller that cares about decrypting before sending the files to the user.

Answer 1

Method url() is still not usable for the files are placed in subdirectories.
You may also use the storage_path function to generate a fully qualified path to a given file relative to the storage directory:
$app_path = storage_path('app');
$file_path = storage_path('app/file.txt');
In reference to Issue #13610
The following works for version 5.3:
'my-disk' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path(),
'url' => '/storage'
],
\Storage::disk('my-disk')->url('private/myfile.png')
this should return "/storage/private/myfile.png"