[Asterisk-Users] Re: Proposed solution for exit code priority jumps

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:12, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
> John Todd wrote:
> 
> > I realize this is a major code shift, since it would require work in 
> > pretty much every single application.  It's easy for me to talk about 
> > this since I can't accomplish such a task.  However, without attention 
> > now, this may never be solved, which would be a pity because it's a 
> > real crimp in the style of anyone doing more than trivial dialplan 
> > manipulation - anyone doing cascading dial failovers will attest to that.
> 
> 
> We were talking in the conf the other day about possibly creating a 'F' 
> extension for 'failure'.  I'm not sure if this is even remotely close to 
> what your talking about or not.

Hmm, F would be good, possibly B also. I could see a good case for the
lead digit for a pattern doing a goto to a context that could define
those for outbound calls. 

[normal_extensions]
exten => 9,1,Goto(Extended_out,s,1)

[Extended_out]
exten => s,1,Playtones(dialtone)

exten => F,1,background(Failed)
exten => F,2,hangup

exten => B,1,congestion

exten => _NXXXXXX,1,Dial(Zap/g2/${EXTEN})


This example tightly controls the B and F special extensions to a
specific dial in the context.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>