Download Student Applications as PDF (background process) and Excel

[betsyecastro]

Adds support in the profile-students view for downloading both individual and multiple student applications. The "Download" option allows downloading a single application, while "Download Student Applications" enables exporting filtered applications by filing status in Excel or PDF formats to address issue #187

The job that generates the PDF file in the background, receives a PdfGeneratorService - an implementation of the PdfGenerationContract interface to support multiple PDF generation methods Browsershot, AWS Lambda, and container-based).

The queue connection has been changed from the sync driver, which executes jobs synchronously during the request, to the database driver, which queues jobs in the database. These jobs are then processed asynchronously by a queue worker.

Requirements:

• .env updates:
  CACHE_DRIVER=redis
REDIS_PORT=6379
QUEUE_CONNECTION=database
• Run composer install
• Run php artisan queue:work

To clean up temporary files:

• Run php artisan files:clean-up-pdfs. This command removes timestamped folders in the tmp/reports directory that are older than the specified threshold (default: 2 hours). Options:
  • --root=tmp/reports Root directory where timestamped folders are stored
  • --hours=2 Deletes folders older than the specified number of hours
  • --disk= Filesystem disk to use (defaults to FILESYSTEM_DISK)

Replaces PR #192.

[shukla-m]

Hi @betsyecastro, this works great! I tested both bulk PDF downloads (with and without filters) and individual PDF download and everything seems to work as expected. I added a few comments for minor changes. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.