[asterisk-users] Manager API - Setvar not working

[Rizwan Hisham]

Thanx a lot.........that was it. will never forget to remove the new
character again. Now its working fine.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk>
wrote:

> In article <4809880c0805090402o77001c79ne7cacec0c7dacf89 at mail.gmail.com>,
> Rizwan Hisham <rizwanhasham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > same is the case in 1.6, i cant set the variable still.
>
> My guess would be that you have a problem with line endings.
>
> All lines received from the manager interface are terminated with \r\n,
> not just \n. If you only strip the \n off, the channel name you received
> will contain \r at the end. If you then send that back in the setvar
> command with a further \r\n to terminate the line, then Asterisk will
> probably not find a matching channel.
>
> Make sure you strip both \r and \n from incoming lines.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
>
> > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:39:39PM +0500, Rizwan Hisham wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I am using a simple perl script to connect with ast manager api. the
> > > script
> > > > tries to set a channel variable. It extracts the channel name from
> the
> > > > events it recieves after dial command. When i try to set the channel
> > > > variable, asterisk responses with an error saying that the channel
> does
> > > not
> > > > exist. Can anybody tell me why its doing so, coz i can see on cli
> that
> > > the
> > > > channel exists. If i try to set the variable without stating the
> channel
> > > > then it sets the global variable, but i want to set the channel
> variable.
> > > > Anybody has a solution to this problem?
> > >
> > > In 1.6 you can set a channel variable from a diferent context. I don't
> > > think you can do that in 1.4 .
> > >
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