[asterisk-dev] manager event conversion strategy

Russell Bryant russell at digium.com
Tue Feb 10 14:00:07 CST 2009


On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Brian Degenhardt wrote:
> CEL is in reviewboard very close to being committed AFAIK.

I still have a lot of reviewing to do in there, but my current goal is  
to work with Steve to have this completed by 1.6.3.

> One thing to note though is that CEL events require a bunch of stuff  
> in
> the channel structure to be passed with them (context name, priority,
> extension, caller-id, etc.)  I'm not overjoyed with how these all are
> mandatory IEs, but there's not really a way in events of presenting a
> menu of extra metadata and letting event subscribers requests the  
> pieces
> they want, so you just dump everything into each event.


I think this is probably the best way to do it.  Otherwise, you're  
stuck performing a bunch of logic every time you want to generate an  
event to see what people out in the world care to see.  I think it's  
going to be more efficient in the end to do it how it is done now.

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