[asterisk-dev] ${DIALSTATUS} = NULL - is that OK?

[Russell Bryant]

Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote:
> On June 9, 2008 06:34:29 am Chris Maciejewski wrote:
>> Is behaviour described above normal? The reason I am asking is because
>> my dialplan logic depends on ${DIALSTATUS} variable and currently I
>> use "GotoIf($[${ISNULL(${DIALSTATUS})} = 1]?label1:label2)" which
>> works fine for now, but may break if Dial will return some status in
>> the future.
> 
> Personally I would like to see Dial set the variable to INPROGRESS as soon as 
> it runs.  I use DIALSTATUS=NULL to see if I dialed at all.  :-)

That would be a reasonable enhancement to make.

In response to the original question.  I think that if there is any code 
path which allows Dial() to exist without setting a DIALSTATUS, then 
that is a bug.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.