Add new method to detect if root request is an API request (#12913)

* Add new method to detect if root request is an API request

* Update CHANGELOG.md

* add docs

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/API/API.php b/plugins/API/API.php
index c4553d81b3..dad8a602e2 100644
--- a/plugins/API/API.php
+++ b/plugins/API/API.php
@@ -749,10 +749,16 @@ class Plugin extends \Piwik\Plugin
     public function registerEvents()
     {
         return array(
-            'AssetManager.getStylesheetFiles' => 'getStylesheetFiles'
+            'AssetManager.getStylesheetFiles' => 'getStylesheetFiles',
+            'Platform.initialized' => 'detectIsApiRequest'
         );
     }
 
+    public function detectIsApiRequest()
+    {
+        Request::setIsRootRequestApiRequest(Request::isApiRequest($request = null));
+    }
+
     public function getStylesheetFiles(&$stylesheets)
     {
         $stylesheets[] = "plugins/API/stylesheets/listAllAPI.less";