Get environment inside controller

Question

I have a situation in one of my controllers that should only be accessed via AJAX, I have the following code.

if (!$request->isXmlHttpRequest()) {
    $response = new Response();
    $response->setContent('AJAX requests only!');
    return $response;
}

When I am testing this gives me an issue because the request hasn't actually been made via AJAX. This then breaks my tests every time. How should I go about working around this?

My Ideas:

1. I have tried to set a server header but have had absolutely no success.
2. Check if I am in the test environment in the controller and don't do the check if it is. I know this is dirty, but it would work. :-/ The problem was that I couldn't figure out how to discover what environment I am in.

Anyone else have any other ideas or tips that I am missing to get one of the above to work?

Answer 1

Of course in Icode4food's case, it's better to use Matt's solution, but here is how to find the current environment:

$this->container->getParameter(‘kernel.environment’)