[asterisk-dev] [asterisk-users] Calling Directory app from AGI

[Mike Diehl]

"Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at meg.abyt.es> wrote:
> On Monday 31 January 2011 22:21:14 Mike Diehl wrote:
>> Steve Edwards wrote:
>> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Mike Diehl wrote:
>> >> I've got an agi script that calls the directory function, which seems
>> >> to work to a point.  However, once the caller has selected an entry,
>> >> I need my agi script to find out which extension was selected.  I've
>> >> RTFM'd and don't see that the extension is returned.  Nor is a
>> >> variable set, as far as I can see.
>> >> 
>> >> Is there a way to get this information from the directory
>> >> application?
>> > 
>> > No channel variable is set, but it would be a simple modification to
>> > the source code to return the extension instead of dialing it.
>> 
>> Is this a patch that anyone else would be interested in?  I could
>> probably figure out how to accept a flag, say 'r', and return the
>> extension.  I'm not an official asterisk developer, but I could/would
>> sign a release. --
> 
> Mike, that sounds great.  The right way to go about this is through the
> issue tracker at https://issues.asterisk.org.  This is also where you
would
> need to sign your license agreement for the contribution.  Just mark your
> issue as Severity: Feature, and it'll probably find its way into 1.10.

No problem.  This would also allow me to have a second pair of eyes looking
at my code before I deploy it into production.  I've looked a the code and
it doesn't seem that hard, though I've only looked at Asterisk's src for
about 30 minutes!

Assume I'll get some basic feedback on my submission?

TIA,


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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.