[asterisk-app-dev] Handling transfers with ARI

[Phil Mickelson]

Not sure if this will help but what I do is fairly simple.  A couple of
things:

1.  This is all written in JS using Node.js.
2.  I use ari-client from npm.

To me this is very simple.  You already have the bridge and channel setup
for Alice.  I create another channel that dials Charlie.  And, as soon as
the create channel call comes back I just set the channel id (was Bob) in
the bridge to the new channel for Charlie.  That's it.  If it doesn't get
answered I hope it goes to VM.  However, that's the downside of a blind
transfer.  I have some code in there for what happens if Alice hangs up
before Charlie answers, etc but that's because I keep track of every call
in my system.

And I wrote all of this before there were Promises and Async/Await.
Hopefully next year I'll have the time to rewrite the whole thing.

And, for the people at Asterisk who came up with the idea of ARI.  Thank
you soooo much.  Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and that 2021 is
much better than 2020!

Phil

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:38 AM Jean Aunis <jean.aunis at prescom.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm struggling to find a way to properly handle blind transfers with ARI.
>
> This is my use case :
>
> - Alice calls Bob through Asterisk
>
> - dialing and bridging is done with ARI
>
> - when Bob blind-transfers to Charlie, I would like to use the
> "redirect" ARI operation, or the Transfer application
>
> But here is the issue : since the channels are stasis-managed,
> transferring is done with Local channels which remain in the path, so
> Transfer and redirect have no effect on them. And Alice's channel is not
> aware that it is being transferred.
>
> Has somebody already dealt with this ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean
>
>
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