[asterisk-app-dev] Channel indications

[Matthew Jordan]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Jenkins <dan.jenkins88 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:
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>> Daniel Jenkins wrote:
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>>> Is this to put a channel on hold/answer etc or to find out what state
>>> the channel is in?
>>>
>>
>> It's to put a channel on hold, instruct it to indicate ringing, etc.
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> Oh right OK, I would agree with Paul on this one,
>
> One, the api is being designed partially so that non telephony people can
> get into this, I didn't know what indicate meant in this context
>
> I would have this as a PUT (you're updating the state of that channel as
> such) and have /ari/channel/{id}/hold (or whatever the prefix is) etc
>
> This is very clear, you're updating a channel to be in a hold state/
> you're telling the channel to answer etc.
>
> so +1 to Paul
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>
Before we decide to obliterate /indicate, do we foresee a need for other
indications, e.g., /busy, /congestion, etc.? These are more in the
"telephony" concepts subdomain, and are really different ways to destroy a
channel. I'd prefer to not have them at all, honestly - the fact that you
are disposing of a channel is all you should really care about through the
API. Playing a particular tone when that occurs feels more like an optional
detail, and not a true separate operation. But I'd hate to have a
proliferation of similar concepts as separate operations when they make
more sense grouped together.

Follow up: how ugly is it to have a parameter passed to DELETE?

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Matthew Jordan
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