[Asterisk-Users] Feedback request: AGI GET DATA change -termination digits

[John Todd]

>  > While that change is fine, you could also just write the
>>  same functionality with get digit and deal with it inside
>>  the AGI app.
>
>I guess the digit handling part is doable with WAIT FOR DIGIT.. I was going
>to ask about interupting the prompt that played before that but on RTFM-ing
>I see that STREAM FILE returns the interrupting digit if interruptions are
>allowed.
>
>Sooo... Knock myself up a subroutine in Perl to handle flexible digit
>termination as I want.. or have a look at patching the GET DATA function in
>AGI, potentially making easier for others whilst not breaking anything that
>currently exists.
>
>Would bug tracker be the way to go for further discussion? Or I could go
>with the second option, stick it in there, and see if it makes it to CVS?
>
>Cheers
>Paul

I would suggest that if you pursue the second path (patching GET 
DATA) that you start a new feature request in the bugtracker, since 
the original item (#181) was about a request to program this into a 
new application for the dialplan, not AGI.

Just because something can be done one way with Asterisk doesn't 
meant that a shorter/better/different way of doing it won't be well 
received if it is significantly easier and makes the life of the 
scripter/dialplanner less complex.

JT