FileNotFoundException in Filesystem.php line 381 When try to delete image - laravel-5

Question

i'm bulding simple insert and delete function using laravel 5.0
However it give me an error :
FileNotFoundException in Filesystem.php line 381:
File not found at path: public/img/products/xxxxxx.xxx
My Code is :
public function postCreate(Requests\ProductRequest $request)
{
$product = new Product;
$product->category_id = Input::get('category_id');
$product->title = Input::get('title');
$product->description = Input::get('description');
$product->price = Input::get('price');
$product->status = Input::get('status');
$image = Input::file('image');
$filename = date('m-d-Y-H_i_s')."-". $image->getClientOriginalName();
$path = public_path('img/products/' . $filename);
Image::make($image->getRealPath())->resize(468, 249)->save($path);
$product->image = 'img/products/'.$filename;
$product->save();
return redirect('admin/products/')->with('flash_message','Product created');
}
public function postDestroy($id)
{
$product = Product::find($id);
if ($product) {
Storage::delete('public/'.$product->image);
$product->delete();
return redirect('admin/products')->with('flash_message', 'Product deleted');
}
return redirect('admin/products')->with('flash_message','Something went wrong , please try again');
}
May i know what happen? i try few alternatives such :
File::delete (no error but image not deleted)
\File::delete (no error but image not deleted)
Namespace :
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Product;
use App\Category;
use Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
use Intervention\Image\Facades\Image;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;
use Storage;
use League\Flysystem\Filesystem;
use File;

Answer 1

5 months later I stumble on to the same exception using Laravel 5.1. Using Storage::delete(), I tried passing it the relative path to my delete target file from the root of the storage folder, and that failed with file not found. In the stack trace I saw that Filesystem->delete was being called with an invalid path relative to the physical machine's path. So I called it with storage_path().'/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG'
That's when the stack trace got interesting. When I called it with the full true file system path, it still threw a filenotfoundexception, but the path shown as passed to Filesystem->assertPresent() had the leading slash peeled off. Like so:
in Filesystem.php line 381
at Filesystem->assertPresent('home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG') in Filesystem.php line 232
at Filesystem->delete('/home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG') in FilesystemAdapter.php line 155
at FilesystemAdapter->delete('/home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG')
at call_user_func_array(array(object(FilesystemAdapter), 'delete'), array('/home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG')) in FilesystemManager.php line 293
at FilesystemManager->__call('delete', array('/home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG')) in Facade.php line 216
at FilesystemManager->delete('/home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG') in Facade.php line 216
at Facade::__callStatic('delete', array('/home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG')) in ObservationsController.php line 224
at Storage::delete('/home/vagrant/Proj/donk/storage/app/7/observe/1455749755-yet.JPG') in ObservationsController.php line 224
The path at line 3 of the stack trace, Filesystem->delete() is dead on. But what is passed to actually check file existence [assertPresent()] is relative, and in this case not a valid path.
My workaround was to simply use File::delete() rather than Storage::delete(). Perhaps the latter can work when it's a file that's sitting at the root of the storage folder, but I'm not going to bother testing that because that's not what I want to do. If that's the limitation of the Storage class, it's not worth much IMO.
Found this interesting related thread at github. Apparently it's by design? Seems, uh, flawed.
https://github.com/thephpleague/flysystem/issues/477