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

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Garstang 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:26 PM
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] What's up with the Manager Interface?!?!
> 
> 
> > -----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.

Grrrr. Here's another example...

Action: Command
Command: sip show peer 2944093

Response: Follows
Privilege: Command


  * Name       : 2944093
  Secret       : <Set>
  MD5Secret    : <Not set>
  Context      : 180o_CallStart
  Subscr.Cont. : 180o_WatchBLF

Why the HELL is there an asterisk before 'Name'? Now I have to strip the bloody thing out!
And why is there TWO empty lines before it?
Good grief!

Doug.