[asterisk-app-dev] Asterisk ARI

[Glen Millard]

Well, yes - it does some.

For what I am trying to do, what would you recommend? What available tools
are out there?

Thanks

Glen


On 6 February 2014 12:07, Ben Merrills <b.merrills at mersontech.co.uk> wrote:

> >Well, that's a start, I think!
> >The ARI is a Little vague, as I'm wondering if you could perhaps cite a
> few real world examples. That way, I can get a feel for what I can do.
> >Thanks!
>
> ARI is more for creating applications, traditionally written in c, that
> exist as modules within asterisk. For example, app_queue. However, because
> ARI is REST and WebSockets based, it's not dependant on language or
> location (can be hosted on a different machine).
>
> A use of ARI might be to write a replacement for app_queue, or confbridge
> or voicemail itself.
>
> If you wanted to interact with app_queue, you might use AGI/AMI, but you
> wouldn't use ARI.
>
> I hope that helps a little.
>
> >Sent from my Android - if my spelling, diction or grammar is poor, please
> don't think that I am an idiot!
> On Feb 6, 2014 11:52 AM, "Paul Belanger" <paul.belanger at polybeacon.com>
> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Glen Millard <glenmillard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello Folks;
> >
> > Let's see if I can word this correctly. I wanted to use the Asterisk ARI
> to
> > be able to do certain things from a web interface.
> >
> > We were hoping to do the following with it:
> >
> > 1.  Have clients set up voicemail on the Asterisk server
> > 2.  Be able to record their own greeting
> > 3.  Configure voicemail --> email (email voicemail messages to them)
> > 4.  Control the number of rings - or at least the time that it takes for
> > voicemail to pickup
> >
> > I see some of the API calls in the Swagger UI - however, I think I may
> just
> > not be familiar with they naming / nomenclature in Asterisk .
> >
> > So, with the above list, and I am not looking for hand-holding, just some
> > guidance.
> >
> > Is there a way to do these things with the use of the API or the RealTime
> > Database config? If so, just some ideas on how to get started. If not, is
> > there a 3rd party application/resource that someone knows of where I can
> do
> > this by utilizing some sort of toolkit or API?
> >
> > Thanks so much - I really appreciate the help!
> >
> You can't really provision Asterisk using ARI. ARI is more a
> replacement interface allowing you to create a voicemail application.
> So, as it stands to day, no existing applications in asterisk
> (app_queue, app_voicemail) are exposed.
>
> Eventually somebody will write a voicemail replacement, that is
> outside of asterisk (using ARI) and they will likely expose some API
> to allow 3rd party applications to provision them.
>
> Hopefully that helps.
>
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