How to get Importers Email Address on afterImport Event

[bitzsalex]

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to send a summary of an Excel/CSV file uploading and processing. I am using the ShouldQueue thread to validate and update each raw in the background and I passed the importer's user object to the Importer object via constructor but the importers object value will get lost on the afterImport event. I even declared a static variable and set its value to the passed user object but in the afterImport event it keeps giving me null.

Here is my code:

<?php
// Import stmts

class SchoolsImport implements ToCollection, WithHeadingRow, WithChunkReading, WithEvents, ShouldQueue
{
    use Importable, RegistersEventListeners;

    protected static $importedBy;
	
	public function __construct(User $importedBy)
    {
        self::$importedBy = $importedBy;
    }

    public function collection(Collection $collection)
    {
		dd(self::$importedBy); // Will print the user
    }

    public static function afterImport(AfterImport $event)
    {
        $userEmail = self::$importedBy->email; // give me an error
        Mail::to($userEmail)->send(new Gmail());
    }
}
?>

and if I run queue:work every time it keeps on giving me an error accessing a property of a null object.

Thanks for your help.

[patrickbrouwers]

You have to get/set it via the $event->getConcernable() which is the actual instance of your import. self:: doesn't refer to the import in events.

[bitzsalex]

@patrickbrouwers Thank you for your response it helped me a lot. But I guess the import class releases all the objects defined in the import class after afterImport() concern fired up. So, inside the afterImprt() concern if you the following it won't work:
$event->getConcernable()->importedBy->email; // will give you an error saying trying to get email property of null object

The solution is to declare a property inside the importer class the access it inside afterImprt concern via $event->getConcernable(). As the following:

class SchoolsImport implements ToCollection, WithHeadingRow, WithChunkReading, WithEvents, ShouldQueue
{
    use Importable, RegistersEventListeners;

    protected $importerEmail;
	
    public function __construct(User $importedBy)
    {
        $this->importerEmail = $importedBy->email;
    }

    public function collection(Collection $collection)
    {
		dd($this->importerEmail); // Will print user's email
    }

    public static function afterImport(AfterImport $event)
    {
        $userEmail = $event->getConcernable()->importerEmail; // Works perfectly
        Mail::to($userEmail)->send(new Gmail());
    }
}

[patrickbrouwers]

@bitzs-alex yes that's the way to do it!