[asterisk-app-dev] Handling Inbound Calls with ARI

[Joshua Colp]

Timothy Bott wrote:
> Thank you very much for your quick reply.
>
>> Generally instead of doing that people have been replacing the
>> Queue application with their own ARI application instead. Since the
>> channel is then always in Stasis they can do what they need to
>> connect it to the right place. It also makes it easier to implement
>> different strategies and business logic.
>
> I have read about this solutions before and I am very interested in
> it. Just to ensure I understand this properly.
>
> If I want to write my own Queue application, I would do as follows:
>
> 1. I send all incoming calls to stasis by using Stasis(appname) in my
> dialplan
>
> 2. I have a websocket connection always listening for event and
> connected to this application, since the "Stasis()" command fails if
> the application is not registered on asterisk.
>
> 3. I would write my own business logic to handle incoming calls and
> manipulate them however i want.

Yes.

>
> I assume that I can move a channel from one stasis application to
> another, is that correct?

Currently you can't do it directly without going back into the dialplan 
using /continue.

Cheers,

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Joshua Colp
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