[asterisk-dev] qeustion about app_dial.c do_forward function getting the forwarding peer

[Klaus Darilion]

Hi Stefan!

Stefan Schmidt schrieb:
> Hello klaus,
> 
> thanks for the link to this issue, this was the patch i was thinking of,
> my problem is that when i use your patch:
> pbx_builtin_setvar_helper(o->chan, "FORWARDER", winner->name);
> after inherit the orig and the winner channel, i just got the Local
> channel 1 in this Var. What i need was the name of the redirecting channel.
> 
> in 1.6 the app_dial looks diferent to 1.4 so there is the incoming orig
> chan (in) the winner which is first c = o->chan which is the channel
> which starts the forward (with the peer i need) but is set to the new
> outgoing channel after
> c = o->chan = ast_request(tech, in->nativeformats, stuff, &cause); (row:
> 533)

Not sure what you mean. I have tested with 1.6.2 and it works as 
expected. See new uploaded patch at:
  https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14592

In my patch I only use the SIP peer name, no channel names.

regards
klaus

> what i have done to make it useable for me is a
> pbx_builtin_setvar_helper(in,"FORWARDING_PEER",c->name);
> before this row, so i really have the channel name of the peer which
> starts the forward, but set it to the orig incoming channel (in).
> 
> so i have to use
> pbx_builtin_getvar_helper(chan->chan_list.next->chan_list.next,"FORWARDING_PEER")
> to get the channel name which starts the forward.
> 
> i still dont know why there are 2 local channels when doing a forward,
> but i think that the first local points to the incoming and the second
> local channel starts the outgoing channel and when this is successfull
> the orig and the outgoing is bridged and the local channels are stopped.
> 
> maybe you shout think about this when doing this patch.
> 
> best regards
> 
> steve
> 
> Klaus Darilion schrieb:
>> Hi Stefan!
>>
>> Maybe this helps too:
>> https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14592
>>