[asterisk-dev] Introducing the new ConfBridge

[David Vossel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at digium.com>
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:08:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Introducing the new ConfBridge
> On 03/15/2011 02:00 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:57 -0500, David Vossel wrote:
> >
> >> Umm, this is a good point. What if I made an app that allowed
> >> bridge/user profiles to be built dynamically in the dialplan, would
> >> that work?
> >>
> >> ConfBridgeCreateProfile(type,options) ; Allows custom User and
> >> Bridge profiles to be built dynamically and stored on the channel.
> >>
> >> When ConfBridge is called on the channel with no user or bridge
> >> profile specified, it will check to see if one of these dynamic
> >> profiles exist and use it instead of the default profiles in
> >> confbridge.conf.
> >>
> >> Example Usage
> >>
> >> exten => 1111,1,Answer()
> >> exten => 1111,n,ConfBridgeCreateProfile(bridge,i(16000)m(50)) ;
> >> creates a bridge profile with internal sample rate of 16khz and max
> >> members of 50
> >> exten => 1111,n,ConfBridgeCreateProfile(user,a) ; creates a user
> >> profile specifying this user is an Admin.
> >> exten => 1111,n,ConfBridge(1111,,,) ; Uses the dynamic bridge and
> >> user profiles just created.
> >
> > I think I would prefer a dialplan function interface. That seems
> > more
> > natural to me for this sort of thing.
> >
> > ;
> > ; Set an option on a dynamic confbridge profile. If the profile does
> > ; not exist, create it.
> > ;
> > exten => foo,1,Set(CONFBRIDGE_PROFILE(profile_name,<bridge|
> > user>,option)=value)
> 
> I like this idea as well... although I'm not sure the profile_name is
> valuable, since it can't be shared across channels. It does have one
> benefit, in that it removes 'implicit' behavior in ConfBridge itself,
> and requires the dialplan writer to refer specifically to the dynamic
> profile, which is worthwhile... but could be complex to document.

I don't think the profile name should be required for dynamic profiles.  Like tony said, it might be useful to specify a profile name from confbridge.conf as a template for the dynamic profile, but I think the dynamic profile should remain nameless.

Also, I like the idea of this being a dialplan function more than an app.  The function seems more consistent with the way other things are done in Asterisk.

David Vossel
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