[asterisk-dev] SIP Autopeer templates [was Re: The fate of 16033]

[Kirill 'Big K' Katsnelson]

On 100217 2352, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>> Does not look like it has been used much at all? What I am missing somewhat there is kind of a peer "template" that would be applied to an autocreated peer -- you can configure a manual one in a [section] of sip.conf, but little can be configured in an automatic one.
>>
> Funhy you should say that. In my chan_sip2 code over five years ago, there was a template system for autocreatepeer as well as for realtime. Maybe we should bring that template code alive again.

I have seen chan_sip2 in general and the template feature in particular 
mentioned in the tracker, but could never figure out what happened to 
that code.

>> Do you think such a feature could be of any interest to the community of users? I have not taken a decision to implement it yet, but I'll put that on the "pro" side of the balance.
> I think it's needed both for autocreatepeers and for realtime. I often get questions if the templates we have in text based configs is available for realtime, but it is not. We do need something for that.
> If I remember correctly, I had something like
> 
> [template_autocreatepeer]
> type=template
> 
> [mysweetrealtimeclass5]
> type=template
> 
> These where excluded from all matching and counting of objects, but used when creating the peers. I think the implementation would be much more simple now.

Sounds sweet. So does that exist anywhere?

  -kkm
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