[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.6 Realtime Database must use ', ' not '|' in appdata field?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 16:05:19 Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:17:54PM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 May 2008 12:51:36 JR Richardson wrote:
> > > I'm testing 1.6 ARA.  All seems to be functioning well, but Asterisk
> > > does not like | (pipe) separators in the appdata fields in the
> > > database.  I don't think this is particular to ARA because I see the
> > > same results when I use static extensions in extensions.conf also.
> > >
> > > So I'm guessing pipe processing has been deprecated or possibly this is
> > > a bug?
> >
> > Removed.  Comma is what most people are used to using in extensions.conf,
> > and has thus been made the authoritative delimiter.
> >
> > > The problem is that 1.2 (which i still use in production) behavior
> > > requires a | for the separator in the appdata fields for ARA database
> > > operation due to ',' being a end of field indication for the database
> >
> > I don't understand this.  Character type fields are all enclosed in
> > quotes, and commas are fine embedded in fields.
>
> Commas are miserable field delimiters, my 20 years of database
> programming experience teaches me.  Tabs, or if you must see the
> characters, pipes, are the best choice.  Why was the capability
> removed?

I think you completely misunderstood.

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Tilghman