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

[eric]

Why use this rather than STREAM FILE?

On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 16:50, Paul Crick wrote:
> ** REPOST: A week later and no feedback - am I the only one
> ** who'd find this functionality useful? No other AGI stuff
> ** out there needing something similar?
> 
> I'd like some feedback on potentially submitting a request (and probably a
> patch too) to change the way the AGI command GET DATA works.
> 
> Right now, # terminates the entry, which is then returned with the #
> stripped off the end. What I'd like is to allow user configurable
> termination digits, which are not stripped off the end.
> 
> Reasoning: Some entries you'd like to terminate with #. Right now it's fine,
> you can tell if # was pressed or not by looking for the lack of a (timeout)
> entry in the returned result. You may want to allow * to cancel an entry.
> This is not possible right now. Systems I've coded previously allow # to
> terminate and complete a digit entry, * to correct an incorrect entry
> (playing the prompt again and restarting digit collection). Pressing  * with
> no prior digit entry cancels the step and returns to the previous menu.
> 
> I guess there's a compatibility issue with stuff that's out there already
> but if it was an optional 4th parameter this would be backwards compatible.
> 
> Proposed new syntax:
>   GET DATA <filename> <timeout> <maxdigits> <terminator>
> 
> If terminator is specified (and it may be multicharacter, like "*#" to give
> me the functionality above), return the digit string collected so far,
> including the terminating digit. The calling app can strip the trailing
> character if needed.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> Paul
> 
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