[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-29166) CDR_PROP, setting party_a, and expectations

[Kevin Harwell (JIRA)]

Kevin Harwell created ASTERISK-29166:
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             Summary: CDR_PROP, setting party_a, and expectations
                 Key: ASTERISK-29166
                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29166
             Project: Asterisk
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: None
          Components: CDR/General, Functions/func_cdr
    Affects Versions: 18.0.1, 16.14.1, 12.0.0
            Reporter: Kevin Harwell
            Severity: Trivial


The [CDR_PROP|https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+18+Function_CDR_PROP] function seemingly allows one to specify which channel is to be _party_a_. However in practice this does not seem to be the case. Or at least it allows picking in such a limited capacity to be of almost no use. 

So this is kind of a two-parter:

1) Figure out the use case(s) for when _party_a_ can be set via the function, and actually effect a record. If found then update the documentation. If possible fix any bugs related to setting _party_a_ on a given channel.

2) Potentially make it so setting _party_a_ using the function overrides even the dialer/dialed.

To the second part, that's more of a new feature and after some preliminary code perusal possibly quite invasive. As is, a dialing channel is always _party_a_ and the dialed channel is _party_b_. In order to override this behavior one would have to "swap" the _party_a_ and _party_b_ snapshots on the cdr structure. Finding the various places to do that is not trivial, and a basic swap probably has unforeseen circumstances (we are talking about CDRs here after all).

As a side note, I put Asterisk 12.0.0. as an affected version since it seems like things have been this way since the rewrite.

Current CDR "spec":

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+12+CDR+Specification



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