searchanddisplace-core/app/SearchDisplace/Documents/DocumentFile.php

<?php

namespace App\SearchDisplace\Documents;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

class DocumentFile
{
    protected $storage;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->storage = Storage::disk('local');
    }

    public function getAfterIngest($id)
    {
        $path = "contracts/$id";

        // Ingest success.
        if ($this->storage->exists("$path.md")) {
            return $this->storage->get("$path.md");
        }

        // Ingest fail.
        if ($this->storage->exists($path)) {
            return '';
        }

        throw new \Exception('Document has not been processed yet.');
    }
}