<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1460471623427265024" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On April 12, 2016 at 10:33:27 AM, Joshua Colp (<a href="mailto:jcolp@digium.com">jcolp@digium.com</a>) wrote:</p> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div></div><div>Mark Michelson wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><snip><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>> I would like to propose a solution to this. Instead of having Asterisk<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> automatically handle call forwards when performing an ARI dial, raise an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> event stating "Outbound channel X wants to forward the call to Y". This<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> way, the ARI application writer can act on this event as desired. You<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> can ignore the call forward attempt altogether. You can look up who Y is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> and forward the call manually. You can check some presence database and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> forward to Y's voicemail instead of Y. You can say "screw you X" and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> forward the call to Z instead.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> The upsides to this are that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> 1) It places the ARI author in complete control of the destination of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> the call. Automatic behavior from Asterisk is limited, and there will be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> no surprises.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> 2) By always dialing outbound calls from the ARI application, we can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> assure that channels are being tracked as expected and there are no<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> hoops that we have to jump through internally to ensure that everything<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> is set up properly.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> The big downside I can think of is that the current ARI originate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> command does automatically perform call forwards. This would introduce<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> an inconsistency in the behaviors of the two methods of making outbound<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> calls.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I think while it's inconsistent the two serve different purposes. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>existing one is very much "dial this and do stuff automagically". The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>new one is very much about giving the control to the ARI developer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p><br></p><p>Which is really what ARI is supposed to be about in the first place, no?</p><p><br></p><div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div><br><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> What is the list's opinion on the proposal for handling call forwards in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> the new ARI dial command?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I'm down with it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>+1 here too!</p></div></body></html>