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

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Florell [mailto:astmattf at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:52 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] What's up with the Manager Interface?!?!
> 
> 
> On 11/29/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > The Asterisk Manager Interface is driving me nuts.
> > Whoever wrote it should be drawn and quartered.
> 
> You would need a ton of rope and a few hundred horses for that :)
> 
> The Manager API code is distributed across dozens of source files in
> the Asterisk code base and if you include every possible input and
> output of it you are talking about code contributions from over a
> hundred people(including me).
> 
> The problem is that the Manager API is not centrally coded and has
> evolved over the last 5 years to accommodate a lot of functionality
> that it was never designed to do. In my experience, the Manager API is
> more stable in 1.2 than it was in 1.0, and it was more stable in 1.0
> than it was in the pre 1.0 CVS codebase.
> 
> Having developed a Manager Queue system 3 years ago, I fought a lot of
> the Manage API battles and eventually got to a fairly robust and
> non-blocking system that deals a lot of the flaws of the Manager API,
> but it was by no means a full-featured solution that worked with every
> kind of Manager input or output.

Agreed on all that, except I found AstManProxy to have just as many issues in the way it rendered XML output.

Doug.