`attachments()` returning empty collection

[christineRN]

I'm having a problem retrieving the list of attachments from my richTextAttribute so I can delete them when the related model instance is deleted.

Here are the details:

I'm writing an app using Livewire and stancl/tenancy and have a model that has a richTextAttribute called $message.

I have followed your instructions for allowing file uploads into this attribute and that all seems to be working as expected.

The attachments render correctly when viewing the saved model instance:

When the user deletes a model instance, I need to ensure that files they uploaded into $message also get deleted on the filesystem.

Unfortunately, when I call $message->attachments() I get an empty collection.

I have also tried calling $message->attachments() in the actual delete() method when deleting a Result (rather than in the ResultObserver in case this was caused by the richTextAttribute having already been deleted by the time ResultObserver was running), but the output is the same.

Any suggestions?

[tonysm]

@christineRN hmm, I don't see what could be wrong. I added an example here, and the tests seem to pass for me. I'll try running the workspace app to see if there's anything wrong in a request/response flow...

[tonysm]

I was also able to get a sample application running with similar code to the code linked above.

[tonysm]

Could you provide more context? Are you able to create a sample app that reproduces the issue? Something I could think could be interfering is if you're using multiple database connections... but not sure if you're using that.

Happy to pair on helping you sort it out if you're not able to reproduce it.

[christineRN]

@tonysm Thanks for taking a look at this. The first thing I noticed after looking at your example is that the data you are storing in the $post->body attribute doesn't look like the data that winds up in my rich_texts table...

Here's an example of what gets stored in my rich_texts->body attribute when I create a record that references it.

This makes me think that maybe my actual problem is that I'm not getting the attachments correctly stored in the richTextAttribute in the first place.

I did have to futz with it to get the image to show up at all (originally it was just displaying an empty box where the image was supposed to be - I attributed that to tenancy, but maybe it wasn't that after all), and I wonder if my "fixing" of that problem was actually just putting a bandaid on it without really correcting the underlying issue.

I'd love to have you take a look at it with me if you are willing... I'm actually trying to track down several issues with this plugin in my project and would love your expert eyes on it.