[asterisk-users] Forking AGI or GoSub

[Dovid Bender]

Steve,

In my case this is for emergency services. The AGI calls a web URL with the
callers information. The call passes through Asterisk and we don't want to
delay the call at all if the API takes 1-2 extra seconds.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:01 PM Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Dovid Bender wrote:
>
> > I have an AGI that can sometimes take time complete. I don't want the
> > dialplan to be held up by the agi. Is there any way to call it and have
> > Asterisk continue with the dialplan?
>
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Dovid Bender wrote:
>
> > I have an AGI that can sometimes take time complete. I don't want the
> > dialplan to be held up by the agi. Is there any way to call it and have
> > Asterisk continue with the dialplan?
>
> I had a situation that required this functionality -- processing a credit
> card could take a second or two and we didn't want 'dead air' for our user
> experience.
>
> I created a pthread to play 'Please hold on while we process your card and
> get ready for a good time...' while the main program continued with the
> card authorization.
>
> Most of the time the auth completed before the audio finished so it
> appeared to be instantaneous to the caller.
>
> The only caveat is to not interact (stdin/stdout) with Asterisk until
> 'stream file' in the thread completed.
>
> --
> Thanks in advance,
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