Filament•10mo ago

Good practice to create a route to a PDF download?

I want to create a PDF download link, I'm using Spatie's laravel-pdf However when for example defining a route in a resource 'generate' => Pages\GenerateDocument::route('/{record}/download') the page needs to extend extends Page but can't override the render()

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dwiser•10mo ago

It might not be exactly what you're asking for but I've done something similar with just a custom action button:

Tables\Actions\Action::make('download')
  ->label('Download')
  ->icon('heroicon-o-arrow-down-tray')
  ->action(function (Document $record) {
    $media = $record->getFirstMedia('documents');  // Using Spatie Media Library

    return response()                              // Laravel response helper
      ->download(                                  // Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/responses#file-downloads
        $media->getPath(),                        
        $media->name . '.' . $media->extension     // Optional. Setting the original filename
      );
  })

Tables\Actions\Action::make('download')
  ->label('Download')
  ->icon('heroicon-o-arrow-down-tray')
  ->action(function (Document $record) {
    $media = $record->getFirstMedia('documents');  // Using Spatie Media Library

    return response()                              // Laravel response helper
      ->download(                                  // Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/responses#file-downloads
        $media->getPath(),                        
        $media->name . '.' . $media->extension     // Optional. Setting the original filename
      );
  })

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Good practice to create a route to a PDF download?