[asterisk-dev] Adding a new module to Asterisk

[Nir Simionovich]

ok, managed to pass that hurdle - I'm basically using a fairly old piece of
code to base my module on - namely, cdr_manager.c,
so the configuration parser in there is slightly different.

Minor question, is there a "safe" asterisk method of doing a "sprintf"?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:16 PM Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017, at 06:45 AM, Nir Simionovich wrote:
> > Ok, that helped - looks like I'm linking correctly now.
> >
> > Different question, I remember their used to be a "safe string copy"
> > function that I'm supposed to use,
> > instead of using strcpy. Mainly, I want to parse my configuration file
> > correctly, but I can't find any
> > specific methodology for doing this in a uniform asteriskish manner.
>
> From a configuration perspective there's two APIs:
>
> If only .conf files are needed then there is the Asterisk Config Options
> API, include/asterisk/config_options.h, which is used by the skeleton
> application apps/app_skel.c for configuration parsing, storing, and
> usage.
>
> If realtime is needed then there is the Asterisk Sorcery API,
> include/asterisk/sorcery.h, which is used by PJSIP and other things -
> with the simplest being res/res_mwi_external.c
>
> It's highly recommended to use one of them instead of rolling your own
> configuration parsing. They take care of things (such as safe atomic
> reloads).
>
> The "safe string copy" you are thinking of is probably ast_copy_string.
>
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