[Asterisk-Dev] Originate Call and Unique ID

[Joerg Lauer]

Hi,

I'm sorry if I'm posting this to the wrong list, but it seemed like the 
right one to me.

I'm currently working on an IVR using Asterisk to handle the incoming 
and originated calls. So far I've worked with asterisk 1.0.9, which came 
with debian. Now I decided to test the 1.2_beta1.

But I have found a little problem between versions and would like to 
know wether this change was intentional, as I couldn't find any hint on 
any mailing list about it (May just be me being stupid).

What I used to do with 1.0.9 was, after originating a call, using the 
local channel (for multiple reasons. One was using the dialplan, another 
was because dial gets me more information about why the call failed, if 
it did). I would then take the unique ID, which I got right after the 
originate response (one of the positive side effects of using the local 
channel) and link it to my own CallID, to wait for the answer.

With Asterisk version 1.2 and CVS-Head I don't get a unique ID anymore 
right after originate. So essentially I have no idea anymore, what call 
just failed or went through.

Is this okay, was there a change in asterisk, so only successfull calls 
will have a unique ID from now on? If yes, how would I solve this 
problem then?

OH yes, I'm using the manager API for all of this.

I would appreciate any information I could get to solve this. If you 
need any more information, just ask.

Kind regards

Joerg Lauer