[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk realtime extensions context inclusion

[Daniel Clark]

Thanks for the reply, it's an approach I didn't think of to simply include
the information from the other contexts into where I would be including
from. In most cases that would work, but not in my case. Each user of my
system will be able to place outgoing calls using their own sip connection
(as in one they create with sipgate or vonage etc). To ensure that each user
can dial out with their own sip connection and nobody else's they are each
getting their own context and that context is the only place in the dialplan
to dial that particular external sip connection. For a small amount of users
it's possible to include all the information in each context, however I'm
dealing with 15,000 users and would like a database small enough to fit on
the hard disk!

 

Would it not be possible to do something with the Goto app? In each persons
dialplan I can have an extension to catch internal numbers and then forward
to another context using exten => 1,1,Goto(context2) or something like that?

 

I have to stick with the database option as there are other applications
that need quick access to the information it holds. It's not really possible
to generate the flat file for all the contexts when at some times that would
mean generating the file over 1,000 a day and reloads of the database each
time. If I can stick with the realtime database in any way, I would much
prefer to.

 

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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk realtime extensions context inclusion

 

 

On 11/13/05, Daniel Clark <clarkd2 at cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi

 

I'm using asterisk realtime to control all of my extensions. As part of this
I need to be able to dynamically create new contexts and extensions. The new
contexts I create will also include existing contexts. Does anybody know the
how to specify context inclusion for asterisk realtime as the database only
has colums for id, context, exten, priority, app and appdata. 


You can't.  Since those other contexts are in the database, why not just
select them and then insert them into the newly created context?

Or better yet dump realtime and generate extensions.conf from your own
database schema.   You could even use the realtime schema with just a couple
of extra fields for things like include files, that way you dont' have to
throw away the work you have already done.

Asterisk doesn't handle database failures very well.  Maybe it's been fixed
now, but for instance a dialplan reload used to wipe out your whole dialplan
if the database was down instead of just skipping the reload.  I spent quite
a bit of time writing an application for ARA at one point, only to toss it
all out after seeing how it actually worked.  I still think it's a good
idea,  and I don't mean to disparage those who put all the work into it, but
it's implementation leaves something to be desired.

Chris  




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