[asterisk-dev] CDR Problem Proposals

[Kaloyan Kovachev]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:20:45 -0600, John Lange wrote
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 09:41 -0700, Steve Murphy wrote:
> > But, the feeling I get is, that A's conversation from the time
> > it calls in, to the time it hangs up with E, should all have been
> > recorded in one single CDR,
> 
> I strongly disagree with that statement.
> 
> >  with parks, xfers, etc, recorded in
> > other CDR's with some sort of cdr 'type' to help identify
> > billable/informational information.
> 
> Each portion of the call should be a discreet CDR, end of story.
> 
> If you want to put it all back together to see the entire call then you
> handle that in CDR parsing/reporting.
> 
> The one thing that would make that really easy would be a unique id that
> stays the same throughout the call flow and is recorded in every CDR
> record.
> 

This won't work in all cases - what if there are two separate CDR with own
unique id (all cases defined as CASE 3 in murf's RFC except the last two
diagrams were they are shifted and are CASE 1) ... which one to drop and which
one to keep in such cases?

> > Until someone thoroughly and thoughtfully writes up a spec
> > that is coherent, and follows it in the implementation, 
> > we'll never have a true CDR implementation.
> 
> Agreed. Lets wipe the slate clean and draw up something completely new
> which hopefully will be ready for 1.8.
> 
> -- 
> John Lange
> www.johnlange.ca
> 
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