[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Manager and app_dial challenge.

[Jongsuk Lee]

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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:42:47 -0700, Brian Roy <b.t.roy at brianandkelly.ws> wrote:
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> All, 
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> Any suggestions you might have would be appreciated. 
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> I have written a pre-alpha Call Data Server in Java for Asterisk. It is
> designed to provide similar functionality to circuit switch CTI solutions
> (like Genesys) including maintaining call state, extension state, and most
> importantly – carry user specified data elements with the call for Screen
> Pop. The challenge I have run into is with the functionality of the Dial
> command and the Link, Unlink, Ring and Ringing events. 
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> In order to properly perform screen pop, ideally the event Ringing on the
> target (or all targets) extension rings. The challenge is that there is no
> linkage between the new calls ringing the target extensions and the original
> inbound call that has the call data associated. Not until the target
> extension answers and the LINK event is fired can those two calls be
> associated. 
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> I have reviewed the code for both pbx.c and app_dial.c and can find no way
> to modify the code to accomplish it. Ideally, I would like a new event
> "PRELINK" which, when the Dial command is fired is set to the manager with
> the same format as a LINK event: 
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> Line: 0: Event: Link 
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> Line: 1: Channel1: SIP/147.135.0.129-0816e408 
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> Line: 2: Channel2: SIP/4403-2871 
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> Line: 3: Uniqueid1: 1097608761.39 
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> Line: 4: Uniqueid2: 1097608761.40 
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> Line: 9: 
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> The PRELINK should be fired once for each target of the Dial Command
> allowing "pop" for all of those clients. 
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> Thoughts? 
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> Brian Roy 
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> b.t.roy at brianandkelly.ws 
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