[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Add 'description' field for SIP peers

[Leif Madsen]

> On 2011-04-07 01:38:18, Olle E Johansson wrote:
> > I think this is a great addition. A few comments:
> > 
> > - This should apply to ALL channels, not only SIP. I need descriptions also for PRI channels.
> > - You forgot to add it to the manager "sip show peer/Peers"
> > - People will quickly ask for "sip show peer described as sexy" CLI commands.
> >
> 
> lathama wrote:
>     This feature already exists in users.conf.  It may be good to keep the naming of "fullname = New User" unless I am missing something.  It does update the callerID.
>     
>     *CLI> sip show peer 1234
>     ...
>     Callerid     : "Andrew Latham" <1234>
>     ...

If fullname in users.conf updates the callerid, then I would say they aren't really the same thing. I like 'description' a lot more because it's a more general option name rather than 'fullname' which seems to imply a callerID type name.


- Leif


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On 2011-04-07 12:57:51, Leif Madsen wrote:
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> (Updated 2011-04-07 12:57:51)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Summary
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> Using some of the best practices names for SIP peers provides the quandary of knowing exactly what peer is where, or who it is assigned to.
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> If you name all your peers as the MAC address of the device, then it's difficult to determine what device is assigned to whom, or at least knowing where the device physically resides.
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> I've added a description field that can help. When you do 'sip show peers' then a new column called Description outputs 32 chars of a description to the Asterisk console.
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> This addresses bug 19076.
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=19076
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> Diffs
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>   trunk/CHANGES 313091 
>   trunk/channels/chan_dahdi.c 313091 
>   trunk/channels/chan_iax2.c 313091 
>   trunk/channels/chan_sip.c 313091 
>   trunk/channels/sip/include/sip.h 313091 
>   trunk/configs/chan_dahdi.conf.sample 313091 
>   trunk/configs/iax.conf.sample 313091 
>   trunk/configs/sip.conf.sample 313091 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1163/diff
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> Testing
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> Added "description=My Awesome Peer" to [0004f2040001] definition in sip.conf, then did 'sip show peers' and 'sip show peer 0004f2040001'. Output was as expected. Compiled without error or warning.
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> Thanks,
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> Leif
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