[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Add regular expression blacklist filtering for manager events

[Nick Lewis]

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General comment: Why a blacklist? What is the usecase? Would not a whitelist give better control i.e. if any whitelist existed all events could be blocked except those matching filters on the whitelist

- Nick


On 2010-05-20 18:42:50, Jeff Peeler wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-05-20 18:42:50)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Summary
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> From the submitter:
> to allow better filtering of ami-events than configuring categories, I created an option "eventfilter" for manager-users. Events to be sent are matched against regexes specified in these options and are discarded if the regex matches (blacklisting).
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> This addresses bug 14861.
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14861
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/main/manager.c 264829 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/673/diff
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> Testing
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> I ensured manager events are reported the same without filtering and works as expected with.
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> Thanks,
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