[asterisk-dev] MiniVM and message forwarding

[Johansson Olle E]

3 dec 2008 kl. 10.09 skrev Tzafrir Cohen:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:14:14AM +0100, Johansson Olle E wrote:
>>
>> 3 dec 2008 kl. 00.59 skrev Watkins, Bradley:
>>>
>>> Off the top of my head, I would say it could be an option to  
>>> Record().
>>> This would have the side effect of potentially being useful other  
>>> than
>>> within minivm, but might be to fine-grained to make it practical for
>>> my
>>> original stated purpose.  That said, it would be easy enough and
>>> perhaps
>>> I'll add it anyway.
>>>
>>
>>> It could be and option to MinivmRecord, which would reduce the
>>> proliferation of Minivm* applications (which may or may not be
>>> considered a good thing or neutral).  This option is also fairly
>>> congruent with the current separation between what the minivm
>>> applications do versus what they expect a dialplan to accomplish.
>>>
>> The idea with minivm is to have a larger set of unique apps. Don't
>> hesitate
>> to create a new one if your new functionality doesn't fit into the
>> existing set.
>> We don't want another huge voicemail app ;-)
>>
>>> The last option I came up with immediately was a MinivmForward app.
>>> The
>>> primary advantage here is that there might be some chicanery  
>>> that's a
>>> little easier to do in C as oppposed to the dialplan, with the
>>> disadvantage that then you're tied to that functionality unless you
>>> want
>>> to change the source and recompile (not an issue with me, but with
>>> respect to users of the applications).
>> I think you need a function to concatenate two recordings, or  
>> prepend/
>> append to
>> an existing prompt. Then you need the MinivmForward app - if its'  
>> still
>> needed. After concatenating the prompt, it's just another voicemail
>> to store.
>
> Assuming you use local files as a storage, right?
>
> And what if you don't want to assume that?

Well, we don't have anything else at this point in Mini-voicemail.
If we add any other storage at some point, you're right. Then we
need the MinivmForward app.

/O