[asterisk-users] Static extensions.conf|ael, best practice, hints (was: Re: What do you use? .conf or AEL?)

[Philipp Kempgen]

Tilghman Lesher schrieb:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2009 13:39:58 Philipp Kempgen wrote:
>> Tilghman Lesher schrieb:

>> >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>> >> > My viewpoint is that you should work on separation of your application
>> >> > code versus data, so that other than new development, your dialplan
>> >> > should be completely static and never need changing (other than, like
>> >> > I said, new development).

>> > I'd have a range of extensions, when dialled, it goes to the database,
>> > retrieves the list of channels, and dials those channels.  The web
>> > frontend would look exactly the same, but the data would go directly into
>> > a database, not taking an extra step to go into a dialplan, then reload
>> > the text file.
>>
>> How do you define the hints (for BLF, directed pickup, group
>> pickup etc.)?
> 
> As of 1.6, you can have pattern-match hints that query a database for the
> actual set of channels.

Two additional questions:

What about permissions that could be expressed by contexts without
actually using contexts (static dialplan, not to be modified by
a web interface)?

What about permissions that are more complicated than what can be
expressed by contexts?


    Philipp Kempgen
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