[Asterisk-Dev] Re: click-to-call cleint

[Matt Riddell (IT)]

Colin Anderson wrote:
>>XML doesn't need to go into the manager, you can use a seperate program 
>>for that (manager proxy).
> 
> 
> Well, this is the controversy, isn't it? Proxies do exist, but because the
> Manager does not "speak" XML itself and XML is not part of Asterisk proper,
> proxy implementations differ depending on who is doing the implementation.
> Because of this difference, XML support is a constantly moving target that
> will never be implemented in a standardized format (common schema), making
> the use of XML itself pointless. There is a *huge* advantage with being to
> leverage the gajillion XML parsers out there as opposed to reinventing the
> wheel every time someone wants to interact with the Manager. 
> 
> With XML support, I could write a very useful and detailed Manager client in
> a couple of dozen lines of code in the language of my choice. But because
> XML support is not there, I have to spend time on making a parser that will
> be wildly incompatible with everyone else's parser out there. Or, I use a
> proxy, and my client is bound by whatever the proxy spits out, and can't
> "speak" to anyone else's proxy implementation. 

Each to their own.  If Manager spoke XML, I'd convert it into something 
less yuck.

Have you ever tried initiating a session via XML with a terminal that 
doesn't support backspace...

Parsing XML requires a hell of a lot more weight than parsing the 
current format.

Sure, if you remove the XML parser from the equation, it smaller, but if 
you remove the manager parser it's smaller too.

Tell you the honest truth, I just don't like XML.  Waste of bits.

:)

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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