[Asterisk-Dev] PATCH - Adds a set'able text string for each channel

[James Golovich]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Adam Goryachev wrote:

> I have just written a small patch which will be used for some in-house
> application we are writing. However, I thought I would post it here in
> case other people might find it useful. If it has a chance of being
> incorporated into asterisk cvs, then I will sign the necesary disclaimer
> etc and post it to bugs.digium.com etc...
> 
> OK, basically the patch allows the manager api to set a "string" on a
> specific channel. This string is kept with the channel until the channel
> is destroyed/hungup. So, it is kept through parking, transfers, etc. (At
> least, I assume this is so... haven't really tested it that much yet).
> 
> It also adds a new event to tell everyone else listening on manager
> interfaces that the text has been set for that channel.
> 
> This is used to store 'bits' of data with a channel within asterisk
> without needing to use a seperate sql db.
> 

I really don't see a reason to bloat the ast_channel struct with this.
Why don't you simply use a channel variable to store your arbitrary info
in?  There might not be an easy way to set channel variable with manager
interface currently, but it should be easy to implement

James