[asterisk-dev] chan_bridge concept

[Donny Kavanagh]

Josh Colp (file) is currently working on a bridging API.  These would
be questions best suited for him.

You can find the branch here:
http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/team/file/bridging/

On 8/15/07, John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to get some ideas on how to develop a new pseudo-channel
> driver, one which is capable of connecting the current channel with
> any other arbitrary named channel.
>
> Why do I want this?  It is the case that app_bridge is a very useful
> tool, but it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Dial.  Things
> like timers, macros, announcements, etc. are not available.  Instead
> of re-writing app_bridge to more closely mimic Dial, it seems more
> appropriate to allow Dial to "steal" channels and treat them as
> automatically-answered calls.  This would require a new channel type
> of type 'bridge', which would allow me to do something like this:
>
> exten => 1234,1,Set(channel-name="SIP/blah.com-e30af312")
> exten => 1234,1,Dial(BRIDGE/${channel-name},30,A(you-are-bridged))
>
> I'm sure this introduces a whole mess of logic problems, but I'm
> interested in hearing comments about such a channel type.  If it's a
> reasonable idea and doesn't create any impossible management issues,
> we'll hire someone to write the driver and submit it back to the core
> code.
>
> JT
>
>
> PS: app_bridge has a particularly unnerving "feature" - if you steal
> a channel away and bridge it, and then hang up, the stolen channel
> will leap back and create a _brand new channel_ in the
> context/extension where you stole it from, but without any channel
> variables or any other clues as to where the inserted channel came
> from.  Very, very disturbing and confusing.  Possibly this should not
> be the default behavior, and the stolen channel upon leg hangup
> should be sent to "h" unless some type of optional return value is
> set.
>
> For instance, try this (I dialed 111 and then cut/paste hardcoded the
> channel name into 222 before calling 222 from another device):
>
> exten => 111,1,Answer
> exten => 111,2,Playback(tt-monkeys)
> exten => 111,3,Goto(2)
> exten => 222,1,Bridge(SIP/blah.com-0a0df778)
> exten => 222,2,NoOp(${BRIDGERESULT})
>
>
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