[Asterisk-Users] Re: Remember the incoming context?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <20060418225706.GB1115 at k7.mavetju>,
Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Somewhere on my asterisk system, a calls come in in a certain
> context, for example, from-sip or from-pstn.
> 
> Then the calls gets routed through the dialplan, and a macro gets
> called, and another one and then the call needs to be redirected
> to another number in the same initial context. And you can use
> Dial(Local/number/initialcontext) for that.
> 
> Oops, this initial context is lost somewhere on the line.
> 
> Unless I'm very mistaken, there is no way to find out what the
> original context was, is there?

The current context is always available in the channel variable ${CONTEXT},
so the easiest thing would be to save this variable in another at the
correct point, and use the saved copy later:

[from-sip]
exten => _X.,1,Set(INITIALCONTEXT=${CONTEXT})
exten => ... and so on

[from-pstn]
exten => _X.,1,Set(INITIALCONTEXT=${CONTEXT})
exten => ... and so on

[somewhere-else]
.... Dial(Local/${NUMBER}@${INITIALCONTEXT})

Or something like that.

And couldn't you use Goto(${INITIALCONTEXT},${NUMBER},1) instead of
Dial(Local/${NUMBER}@${INITIALCONTEXT}) ?

Cheers
Tony
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