[asterisk-dev] Behaviour in trunk's pbx_config.c, app_stack.c and users.conf

[Octavio Ruiz]

Hi!

I'm just trying to bring your attention on this issue, again. I know
it's a trivial thing but I've been using it for half a year and still
makes it sense: There is no entry point for AEL2 written stdexten.

The code is here:

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/secure/attachment/44493/aelsub-stdexten.patch

and the issue is here:

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20355

Best,

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Octavio Ruiz <tacvbo at tacvbo.net> wrote:
> Tilghman and Richard,
>
>> That eliminates the flexibility of there being different definitions
>> depending upon the context in which a phone starts.  For example, you
>> might want a different stdexten for outside callers than you do for
>> internal callers.
>
> That flexibility never existed before Gosub, and probably it's not a
> feature expected for whom used Macros has subroutines or have a
> completely AEL written dialplan and migrated from old version of
> asterisk to new ones, meanwhile silently switching from Macro to Gosub
> internally.
>
>>There is an exception to this, and that is,
>> if you need to call a subroutine written in AEL, you can use the
>> AELSub() application for a consistent entry point.
>
> You are right, so I came up with an idea to add an extra option for
> stdexten in order to have that sane entry point for an AEL written
> stdexten.
>
> asterisk.conf would look like this:
>
> ;stdexten = gosub ; How to invoke the extensions.conf stdexten.
> ; macro  - Invoke the stdexten using a macro as
> ;          done by legacy Asterisk versions.
> ; aelsub - Invoke the stdexten sutbroutine using AELSub
> ;          when stdexten is defined in AEL.
> ; gosub  - Invoke the stdexten using a gosub as
> ;          documented in extensions.conf.sample.
>
> code is here
>
> http://pastebin.com/hbXRisZz
>
> and I've filled a bug report with this, here:
> https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20355
>
> After this thread, do you think this little improvement it's suitable
> for make it into Asterisk?