[Asterisk-Users] What about a higher level configuration language

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I pray for an end to the priorities as well. The +101 could be easily solved 
by a default label, or an option to the dial

for example:

exten => _7XX,1,Dial(yada,10)
exten => _7XX,2,Voicemail(unavail)
exten => _7XX,3,Hangup
exten => _7XX,102,Voicemail(Busy)

could be:

exten => Dial:_7XX,Dial(yada,10)
exten => Hangup:_7XX,Hangup
exten => VMUnavail:_7XX,Voicemail(unavail)
exten => VMBusy_7XX,Voicemail(Busy)

in other words, the dial automatically looks for VMUnavail if not answered, 
or VMBusy if the line is busy

or

exten => 
StartPlan:Dial:_7XX,Dial(yada,10,BeforeAnswer=AA,AfterAnswer=ZZ,Busy=XX,NoAnswer=YY)
exten => ZZ:_7XX,Hangup
exten => XX:_7XX,Voicemail(unavail)
exten => YY:_7XX,Voicemail(Busy)

There must be fat better ways of expressing my thoughts, but it's late on 
Sunday :)

Julian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Capouch" <brianc at palaver.net>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What about a higher level configuration 
language


> Dinesh Nair wrote:
>> On 27/09/2004 00:50 Jay Milk said the following:
>>
>>> Eliminating the need to specify (and keep track of) priorities would
>>> make changes to extensions.conf much easier to implement.
>>
>>
>> or perhaps allow non-consecutive priorities.
>>
>
> After this topic was discussed a bit at the developer's confab, I got to 
> thinking about what a great feature that would be.
>
> Renumbering priorities is a sadly common task for me in my somewhat 
> chaotic config environment, and having a way to "sneak in" actions in 
> between existing ones would be a major win.
>
> Of course, the problem of the hard-coded "priority + 101" situation is 
> problematical.  I say we think through what the perfect world would look 
> like in this respect and then see how hard it would be to implement. . .
>
> B.
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