[asterisk-users] Exec two commands with ExecIf

[Dovid Bender]

Anyone know why this never made it into Asterisk?

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 6:12 AM <asterisk at phreaknet.org> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users <asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com> On Behalf
> > Of Steve Edwards
> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2021 2:06 AM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-
> > users at lists.digium.com>
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Exec two commands with ExecIf
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Dec 2021, Dovid Bender wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any way of using ExecIf to run two commands instead of 1? e.g.
> > > instead of
> > >
> > > Exten 123,1,ExecIf($["FOO" == "BAR"]?BackGround(you-owe)) Exten
> > > 123,1,ExecIf($["FOO" == "BAR"]?SayNUmber(1000000"))
> > >
> > > I would ideally like to do it in one line.
> >
> > 1) gotoif()
> >
> > 2) gosub()
> >
> > 3) AEL
> >
> > gosub() is probably 'cleaner' and more maintainable than gotoif(). AEL
> is good
> > but sometimes fragile.
>
> Sounds like you might benefit from the If/EndIf applications:
> https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/16121
> You can specify a condition once, but execute multiple dialplan
> applications. AEL not needed.
> No need to branch, especially Gosub which has a huge overhead. This is
> probably the cleanest way to do it in dialplan, as you don't end up with
> branching everywhere just to have a conditional execute 2 lines.
>
> exten => 123,1,If($["FOO"="BAR"])
>  same => n,BackGround(you-owe)
>  same => n,SayNumber(1000000)
>  same => n,EndIf()
>  same => n,Playback(goodbye)
>  same => n,Hangup()
>
>
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