[asterisk-users] What's up with the Manager Interface?!?!

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Collins [mailto:mcollins at fcnetwork.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:20 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] What's up with the Manager Interface?!?!
> 
> 
> > Sometimes the data comes back separated by \r\n, and sometimes it's
> > separated by \n.
> > The whole thing is completely inconsistent, and trying to write any
> kind
> > of API for it is -GHASTLY-
> 
> Doug,
> 
> What language(s) are you using?  Just curious.  I've been 
> tinkering with
> Perl, POE, and POE::Component::Client::Asterisk::Manager.  These have
> abstracted away the lowest level of programming. 
> 
> I know you've done Python in the past - I hear that there's a 
> module for
> AMI called py-Asterisk.  Have you seen or tried that?  Ditto 
> with Ruby -
> a module called RAMI.  Both are on sourceforge.
> 
> Also, could you hum a few bars about what you're trying to accomplish
> with your API?  I'm curious about the big picture.

Michael, I'm using python.

Here's a good example. I'm trying to get SIP blf. I managed to split my result into a list of lines by splitting on ANY of \r\n, \n or \r.  I was going use the column headings from the third line as my keys for my dictionary/hash, rather than hard coding them. Notice anything? The 'Call ID' column has a space right in the middle which means I can't simply split this up by white-space. 

        Response: Follows
        Privilege: Command
        Peer             User        Call ID      Extension        Last state     Type           
        xxx.187.128.105  2944090     f7ee98da-6d  2944006          InUse          xpidf+xml      
        xxx.187.128.105  2944090     111e388b-6b  2944077          Idle           xpidf+xml  

I think I looked at the python module and was underwhelmed by it.

Doug.