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

[James Texter]

Doug,
    Your issue isn't with the manager.  It's with the CLI output you are
trying to hijack via manager :D  If you run "sip show peer 2944093" in the
CLI, you'll see a blank line, followed by a line that is "* Name".  It
appears what you really want is a manager Action to show a sip peer, in
which case I would recommend adding a new manager command that returns a
string which is much more machine readable.  Remember, CLI output is
designed to be human readable.

Just my $0.02.



On 11/29/06 3:36 PM, "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:

>> -----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.
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-- 
James Texter