[asterisk-dev] GSoC 2010

[Russell Bryant]

On 02/01/2010 04:56 PM, Mat Murdock wrote:
> I wonder if we could make this more user friendly where you can add a
> variable on each line and the returning xml would be returned into
> variables named by their xml tags.  In the example below two variables
> would be sent to a php page via post and the resulting page would be an
> xml page with a tag named "age".  Anyway just an idea.
>
> exten =>  _X.,n,rest(test);
> exten =>  _X.,n,Set (rest(test,first_name) ="John")
> exten =>  _X.,n,Set (rest(test,last_name) ="Doe")
> exten =>  _X.,n,rest_submit(test,http://somehost/controller/function.php)
> exten =>  _X.,n,NoOp(${rest(test,age)})

My problem with this type of feature is that so many other programming 
langauges already have this figured out, and we make it very easy to 
take advantage of that with AGI.  So, it's hard for me to swallow the 
maintenance burden.  There has just _got_ to be a point at which we say, 
sorry, the dialplan is not designed for that, you need a "real" 
programming language.

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