[asterisk-dev] ENUM changes: discussion

[Klaus Darilion]

Hi!

I agree with John.

regards
Klaus

On Wed, February 15, 2006 5:44, John Todd said:
>
> I saw the changes to the ENUMLOOKUP function below, and one of them
> raises a question in my mind.  It seems to be going backwards to
> continue using the "enum.conf" file when this is easily specified in
> the function call itself, or assuming the "default" of e164.arpa.
> The RFC for ENUM describes e164.arpa as the "only" ENUM suffix, so
> while I don't agree that it is the "only" suffix that is useful for
> ENUM lookups, having it as a default seems perfectly reasonable.
>
> Using .conf files when there is only one value in them seems to be
> wasteful and confusing.  The "h323driver" value is now meaningless
> (and should be removed) since the ENUMLOOKUP function no longer
> creates a "Dial" action.  So that narrows the number of features in
> enum.conf down to simply "search" and that doesn't do anything,
> either, since the ENUMLOOKUP function only searches through a single
> suffix.
>
> If the dialplan author wishes to search through multiple ENUM zone
> suffixes, it is not (IMHO) an overwhelming burden to use a simple
> "GotoIf" to analyize the results of the prior ENUMLOOKUP function to
> see if there is a value in there.
>
> I was rather hoping to have enum.conf become depreciated, and this
> change seems to go backwards a few steps and solidify it's rather
> confusing position in the config file directory.
>
> JT
>
>
>>
>>Author: kpfleming
>>Date: Tue Feb 14 16:20:14 2006
>>New Revision: 10065
>>
>>URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?rev=10065&view=rev
>>Log:
>>warn people about ENUMLOOKUP counting change
>>
>>Modified:
>>     trunk/UPGRADE.txt
>>
>>Modified: trunk/UPGRADE.txt
>>URL:
>>http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/UPGRADE.txt?rev=10065&r1=10064&r2=10065&view=diff
>>==============================================================================
>>--- trunk/UPGRADE.txt (original)
>>+++ trunk/UPGRADE.txt Tue Feb 14 16:20:14 2006
>>@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@
>>    modules.conf file then you will need to explicitly load the modules
>> that
>>    contain the functions you want to use.
>>
>>-* The ENUM() function no longer supplies a default zone for
>>searching; instead,
>>-  it uses the default zone(s) defined in enum.conf.
>>+* The ENUMLOOP() function no longer supplies a default zone for
>>searching; instead,
>>+  it uses the default zone(s) defined in enum.conf. In addition, when
>> the 'c'
>>+  option (for counting the number of records is specified), but the
>>lookup fails
>>+  to match any records, the returned value will now be "0" instead of
>> blank.
>>
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