[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0010668]: Incomplete CDR lock

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10668 
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Reported By:                arkadia
Assigned To:                murf
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   10668
Category:                   CDR/General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           1.4.11  
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases):  1.4  
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             09-07-2007 08:26 CDT
Last Modified:              06-10-2008 04:21 CDT
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Summary:                    Incomplete CDR lock
Description: 
This is all about the meaning of AST_CDR_FLAG_LOCKED flag for CDR. 
I assume if CDR has this flag set then it wont be updated anymore by any
ast_cdr_ functions except cases when we force such update. ast_cdr_reset()
is example of function which allows to update locked CDRs if special flag
is given.

Based on this assumption I prepared the patch with such changes:

  ast_cdr_setvar() - not allowed to touch locked CDRs. I don't see any
cases when we need to change locked CDRs too. Not touching locked CDRs is
helpfull when ForkCDR being used and every new CDR may have different
custom variables.

  ast_cdr_answer() - don't change status of locked CDRs. That might be
helpfull when we have a chain of CDRs for one incoming call for which we
perform several tries to make outgoing call. Every outgoing attempt may
finish with its own completion code. And if the final attempt is 'answered'
then we have only one CDR with 'answered' status. All other will keep
connection error codes which is very helpful for error monitoring.

 ast_cdr_end() - don't change locked CDRs by the same reason as
ast_cdr_answer()

As there will be no changes in CDR after lock, app_forkcdr.c should be
updated to end original locked CDR.
Also it'll be great to make optional cdr reset in this application, but
thats a theme for another patch.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0012726 ForkCDR application fails to set duration
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 arkadia - 06-10-08 04:21  
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Why do you prefer to add separate function argument "dont_touch_locked" and
update a lot of code 
instead of introducting cdr flag AST_CDR_FLAG_DONT_TOUCH_LOCKED and leave
the API untouched?

>However, anyone who's written an app that calls any of the above funcs,
>will now have to modify the calls to these apps. If they add ",0" to
their
>calls, they should get exactly the same functionality.

Why do you want to force developers to modify their code just to keep it
working in the way it was working before? Why not to make their life more
simple and don't change functions parameters, especially when it can be
done easily as in this case.

>This is the first time you've explicitly said that you are calling the 
> ast_cdr_xxx() funcs from an app directly! Well, that's a different
affair.

I'm saying from the begging this bug report is about ast_cdr_... API only
and cdr.c changes. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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06-10-08 04:21  arkadia        Note Added: 0088509                          
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