[asterisk-dev] Feature Request - new manager commands - 'getcontexts' and 'getcontext'

Tilghman Lesher tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com
Sat Jun 9 14:57:10 CDT 2007


On Saturday 09 June 2007, Pari Nannapaneni wrote:
> getcontexts(*new) - returns only the list of contexts in a config file -
> and NOT their contents like: action=getcontexts&filename=somefile.conf
> should return just the list of all context names [context-1]
>        [context-2]
>
> getcontext(*new) - returns the content of a particular context
>    like: action=getcontext&filename=somefile.conf&context=context-1  should
> return only context-1 [context-1]
>        exten = s,1,NoOp(line1)
>        exten = s,2,.....

Wouldn't adding these commands defeat the intent of the http server in
Asterisk?  The intent, as I understand it, is to be lightweight, to shift all
of the complexity of the configuration into the browser, so the Asterisk
process isn't spending time doing string processing for the manager interface
(and thus properly spends its time on call processing).

I understand that this type of processing isn't necessarily that intensive,
but every little feature that we add to the manager for the GUI incrementally
lessens the CPU available for calls.

-- 
Tilghman


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