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<p style="margin-top: 0;">On July 29th, 2014, 2:32 p.m. UTC, <b>Joshua Colp</b> wrote:</p>
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<td colspan="4"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; ">ASTERISK_FILE_VERSION(__FILE__, "$Revision$")</pre></td>
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<td bgcolor="#fdfebc" width="50%"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; "><span class="tb"> </span><span class="tb"> </span><span class="tb"> </span>Set a channel variable.</pre></td>
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<td bgcolor="#fdfebc" width="50%"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; "><span class="tb"> </span><span class="tb"> </span><span class="tb"> </span>Set a channel variable<span class="hl"> directly or via function</span>.</pre></td>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">This confuses me, even after reading a few times. Specifically what you've added: "directly or via function". Dialplan functions usually don't set variables.
"Set a channel variable or execute a dialplan function." is clearer
Same applies for the other modifications.
Thoughts?</pre>
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<pre style="margin-left: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">That makes sense to me. I believe I was thinking of using CHANNEL(blah) with Setvar as setting a channel variable via a function, but I'm betting those arguments are not considered channel variables.
Could you use Setvar to just "execute a dialplan function" without assigning a value to the function? That is, can you really use Setvar to execute *any* dialplan function?
Also, would it make sense to just use the help text description from the Set application for the description of the Setvar manager command? Albeit with a few changes:
"This command can be used to set the value of channel variables or dialplan
functions. When setting variables, if the variable name is prefixed with
'_', the variable will be inherited into channels created from the current
channel. If the variable name is prefixed with '__', the variable will be
inherited into channels created from the current channel and all children
channels."</pre>
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<p>On July 25th, 2014, 2:20 p.m. UTC, rnewton wrote:</p>
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<div>Review request for Asterisk Developers.</div>
<div>By rnewton.</div>
<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated July 25, 2014, 2:20 p.m.</i></p>
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Bugs: </b>
<a href="https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-21178">ASTERISK-21178</a>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">The documentation wasn't clear that AMI Getvar and Setvar could accept function calls.
This is a slight modification to improve clarity.</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Once finalized I'll build in dev-mode with it to make sure I didn't screw up any tags.</pre>
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