Identifying ajax request or browser request in grails controller

Question

I am developing a grails application which uses lot of ajax.If the request is ajax call then it should give response(this part is working), however if I type in the URL in the b

Answer 1

Since Grails 1.1 an xhr property was added to the request object that allows you to detect AJAX requests. An example of it's usage is below:

def MyController {

  def myAction() {
    if (request.xhr) {
      // send response to AJAX request  
    } else {
      // send response to non-AJAX request
    }
  }
}