Wait for excel file to be generated before sending mail

[simonj]

Hey, really love this package!

I have a little question that i could not find in the docs.
Lets say i have an foreach loop where i generate an excel file and after that i want to fire off an email and attach that new created excel file to the email. but what if it takes really long to generate that excel file. would it then send the email even if the excel file is not yet created?

This is what i have

        // Get all contrators
        $contrators = Contractor::all();

        foreach ($contrators as $contrator) {
                $data = $this->countRegistrationsDaily($contrator);
                $filename = 'public/ContractorStatusDaily-'. now()->format('d-m-Y-H-i-s') .'.xlsx';
                Excel::store(new ContractorStatusSheetsExport($data), $filename);

                // Send email with excel.
                Mail::to($contrator->email)->send(new ContractorStatusExportMail($filename));
        }

[patrickbrouwers]

In your flow, it would only send a mail for the export that succeeded.

You could always wrap each contractor loop in a queue job if you want the process to not run out of time: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/queues#introduction