How to check If the current app process is running within a queue environment

Thanks to Stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61243351/how-to-check-if-the-current-app-process-is-running-within-a-queue-environment-in

I got what I wanted.

if(app()->runningInConsole()) {

}

I also needed this, but with the distinction between running in artisan and the queue worker. After some digging, I found 2 solutions.

Solution one

I found out that Laravel (9) only registers \Illuminate\Queue\CallQueuedHandler in the service container when running a queue process.

So you can use this function to know if you are in the queue:

    /**
     * Returns true when the current process runs in a queued process
     * 
     * @return bool
     */
    public function inQueue(): bool
    {
        return App::resolved(\Illuminate\Queue\CallQueuedHandler::class);
    }

Solution two

When Laravel starts a Queue Job there is an event with a callback you can use to attach some currently-running-in-queue flag in the service container. https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/queues#job-events

// Within the boot method of a service provider
App::bind('processing-job', function ($app) {
    return false;
});
Queue::before(function (JobProcessing $event) {
    App::bind('processing-job', function ($app) {
        return true;
    });
});

Then you can run a check anywhere like this:

App::get('processing-job');

I should mention this thing I discovered when testing:

When running tests, and env var QUEUE_CONNECTION is set to sync the test will think you are in a queued process. This is because when working in sync both your test and the job live within the same instance.