[asterisk-dev] Various things

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

Tilghman Lesher a écrit :

>On Monday 04 September 2006 03:41, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
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>>Regarding realtime, why make it DB specific only? IMHO it would be
>>nicer to have a network interface so you could write a server to
>>authenticate against anything. It could use some well defined XML
>>format for data exchange (which is what XML is actually for).
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>I think you missed the ODBC layer, which allows you to connect to
>pretty much any database worth connecting to.
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I specifically said "why make it DB specific only"? My point is it 
doesn't need to be tied to a DB. I could want to it authenticate / 
autorize / account against PAM, or against a file system, or radius, 
etc. If there was a network protocol with a clean, well defined API (a 
la FastAGI) it would be a breeze to do.

I guess I can try to write an ODBC server and couple it with a SQL 
parser... not very nice though, and prone to bugs if the SQL queries 
change too much with versions of Asterisk / ARA.