[asterisk-users] make func_realtime work like app_realtime (1.6)

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 22:05:14 Rob Hillis wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 13:22:25 Rob Hillis wrote:
> >> Wesley Haut wrote:
> >>> Yell at me if you will, but I hate func_realtime - it's not very
> >>> usable nor is it change-friendly (update your database and your
> >>> dialplan completely breaks).
> >>
> >> I agree completely.  As it stands, the REALTIME() function is nearly
> >> completely useless.  If Asterisk had better string manipulation
> >> functionality, it would be /marginally/ better, though still not much
> >> good.
> >>
> >> A far better approach would be to allow you to specify the specific
> >> field you want to retrieve - the same way that you do for a write.
> >> /That/ would make the function many times more useful than it currently
> >> is.
> >
> > What if I made it work with the HASH() dialplan function, similar to how
> > func_odbc works?  Keys are column names, values are the associated field
> > value
>
> I can't say I'm familiar with this method, but a quick look at "core
> show function HASH" would seem to indicate that it would be much better
> than what we have at the moment.  However, for those occasions where you
> only want to pull one variable out of realtime, I'd still like to have
> the option of specifying one field name to retrieve.
>
> Possibly the most useful method would be to return the single field if a
> field name was specified, otherwise return the array with all values in
> it.  That would allow people to pick the method most suitable for them.

Test away!  The method for retrieving a single field is called REALTIME_FIELD,
and the method for retrieving all values into a hash is called REALTIME_HASH.

http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13651

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Tilghman