[Asterisk-Dev] Local channel (New subject)

[Brancaleoni Matteo]

> Oh, the mysterious local channel again. There's no proper documentation on this
> anywhere. Could someone please take some time to explain when to use the local
> channel and how it works, so we could add this to the Wiki and the docs project?

chan_local is a proxy channel. think about it as a goto with return.
useful when you want to exec an extension in another context, without
exiting from current context, so avoiding duplicate actions.

for example:

[inbound] ; here falls all incoming calls
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,Dial(local/200 at internals,30,r)
exten => s,3,Playback(sorrynoanswer)
exten => s,4,Hangup

[internal] ; here where our phones falls for default
exten => 200,1,Dial(sip/blah)
exten => 200,102,VoiceMail(${EXTEN}@default)

exten => 201,1,Dial(zap/1)
exten => 201,102,VoiceMail(${EXTEN}@default)

exten => _0.,1,Dial(Zap/g1/${EXTEN:1}) ; outgoing calls with 0+number

so that let me to call a local (internal) extension,
without:
* duplicate the dial & voicemail statements
* don't letting them to dial out, since in internal
  context I have the possibility to dialout.

This is a very quick & bad example... others may follow.
however, think at it as a goto with return.

matteo

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