[asterisk-dev] Channel Event Logging (CEL) design goals and changes

[Grey Man]

I just had a quick thought today that I wanted to throw into the CEL pot.

A shortcoming for providers using Asterisk is the lack of real-time
call control, i.e. the ability to monitor a user's credit periodically
throughout the call and cut off if they run out sort of thing. A
couple of us have rolled our own solutions for this but the code
changes didn't get accepted back into Asterisk so now we've got
patches to maintain. If the CEL concept was able to be extended to
take user configurable actions in response to events then it would
solve the real-time call control shortcoming as well.

An example scenario would be to be able to set up a CEL event to fire
very 60s and a handler for that event could be set that returned an
integer with the duration the call could be extended for.

Regards,

Greyman.