Refactoring: TakeController returned item Mail moved to a listener

The TakeController was manually sending the email message
as well as dealing with item return, so I moved the email message
to it's own listener, I created an event for it and moved the
return part to the item model.

app/Events/ReturnItem.php

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Events;
+
+use \App\Item;
+use Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel;
+use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
+use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PrivateChannel;
+use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PresenceChannel;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\Dispatchable;
+use Illuminate\Broadcasting\InteractsWithSockets;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Broadcasting\ShouldBroadcast;
+
+class ReturnItem
+{
+    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;
+    public $item;
+
+    /**
+     * Create a new event instance.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function __construct(Item $item)
+    {
+        $this->item = $item;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the channels the event should broadcast on.
+     *
+     * @return \Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel|array
+     */
+    public function broadcastOn()
+    {
+        return new PrivateChannel('channel-name');
+    }
+}

app/Http/Controllers/TakeController.php

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
 use \App\Item;
 use \App\User;
-use App\Mail\ItemAvailable;
 use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+use App\Events\ReturnItem;
 
 class TakeController extends Controller
 {
@@ -27,19 +27,8 @@ class TakeController extends Controller
     public function delete(Request $request)
     {
         $item = User::loggedIn()->items()->find(request('item'));
-        $waiting_id = $item->waiting_user_id;
-        $item->used_by = null;
-        $item->waiting_user_id = null;
-        $item->save();
-
-        //Send e-mail to waiting user
-        if ($waiting_id) {
-            $user = User::find($waiting_id);
-            \Mail::to($user)->send(
-                new ItemAvailable($user->name, $item)
-            );
-        }
-
+        event(new ReturnItem($item));
+        $item->returnItem();
         return redirect('home');
     }
 }

app/Item.php

@@ -38,4 +38,16 @@ class Item extends Model
     {
         return (new static)->where('user_id', \Auth::id());
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Return a specified item
+     * 
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function returnItem()
+    {
+        $this->used_by = null;
+        $this->waiting_user_id = null;
+        $this->save();
+    }
 }

app/Listeners/AlertReturnedItem.php

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Listeners;
+
+use Mail;
+use App\User;
+use App\Events\ReturnItem;
+use App\Mail\ItemAvailable;
+use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
+
+class AlertReturnedItem
+{
+    /**
+     * Create the event listener.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+        //
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Send an email to the user that
+     * is waiting for the item
+     *
+     * @param  ReturnItem  $item
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function handle(ReturnItem $event)
+    {
+        if ($event->item->waiting_user_id) {
+            $user = User::find($event->item->waiting_user_id);
+            Mail::to($user)->send(
+                new ItemAvailable($user->name, $event->item)
+            );
+        }
+    }
+}

app/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event;
 use Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered;
 use Illuminate\Auth\Listeners\SendEmailVerificationNotification;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\EventServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;
+use App\Events\ReturnItem;
+use App\Listeners\AlertReturnedItem;
 
 class EventServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
 {
@@ -18,6 +20,10 @@ class EventServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
         Registered::class => [
             SendEmailVerificationNotification::class,
         ],
+
+        ReturnItem::class => [
+            AlertReturnedItem::class,
+        ],
     ];
 
     /**