[asterisk-dev] Outbound Call Implementation

[Nick Khamis]

Hello Tilghman,

Thank you so much for your response. I agree that an infinite thread
would add to the fingerprint, and may be undesirable
for those that don't care for such functionality. Another approach is
to develop a database hook that fires after a record is inserted? But
before that, when you mention that realtime uses an outside request to
know when to query the database, I assume this is a hook of some sort?
And can the same idea be applied to call initiation? It would be nice
to keep the realtime
module consistent even with call origination.

Cheers,

Nick.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at meg.abyt.es> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 08:46:11 AM Nick Khamis wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am interested in the internal working of Asterisk, mainly how
>> asterisk actually makes a call. I was looking to modify the call
>> functionality to
>> query a database realtime for the call details. As is done with
>> peer/friend register, MOH etc... Out of the box, does asterisk use
>> call files to
>> make the calls? Any direction is greatly appreciated. If I am
>> successful in moving the call details to my/pgsql, I have no problem
>> sharing my
>> solution with everyone.
>> Providing "realtime call" will open a whole lot of possibilities for
>> those not wanting to use AGI, AMI etc..
>
> Realtime currently uses an outside request to know when to pull
> information from the database.  Realtime is not self-starting.  Keeping
> this in mind, how would Asterisk know when a new record was inserted
> asynchronously into the database, to know when to query it?  Are you
> suggesting a new thread that does nothing but query the database on
> a regular interval?  That's potentially quite a lot of CPU.
>
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