[Asterisk-Users] Re: FastAGI Command Execution

[Ben Higley]

You can set a channel variable (LAST_STATE=......) and then have the
fastAGI  retrieve that... whether it be the last index of the mysql table
that it tried, or whatever...



> Tony,
>
> It isn't that simple. I was trying to implemt findme/followme
> functionality. A user dials a number, and then the agi looks up that
> dialled extension in MySQL. For that extension, there is a list of numbers
> to try in sequence. Any step in the sequence could even involve dialling
> multiple numbers at the same time.
>
> If extensions.conf calls out to a Fast AGI script to retrieve the first
> number to dial, and then the Fast AGI script sets certain variables before
> returning control to extensions.conf to actually perform the dial, that
> might work for the first number, but I can't think of any way for the
> state to be maintained, such that if all this was in a loop in
> extensions.conf, on the next call to the Fast AGI script, it could
> remember it's state and retrieve the next number in the list.
>
> Oh if only it where simple!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Mountifield [mailto:tony at softins.clara.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:46 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: FastAGI Command Execution
>
>
> In article <645FEC31A18FE54A8721500CDD55A7B602B425C7 at mail.oneeighty.com>,
> Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed that with FastAGI (and maybe AGI) that when you
>> sequentially send a sequence of dial commands, if the call is picked
>> up, that after the call ends, the Fast AGI script keeps executing the
>> commands!
>>
>> Is there anyway to stop execution once a call is picked up? I think
>> looking at the result codes after the Dial to determine if the call
>> was picked up or not is not a good idea... if it even works.
>
> I would suggest putting the Dial commands in the dialplan itself.
>
> Have the AGI do all the call routing decision making based upon its
> database lookups, but then instead of calling Dial with EXEC, just do
> SET PRIORITY, SET EXTENSION and even SET CONTEXT to choose the required
> part of the dialplan, then exit the AGI. Have the sequence of extensions
> in the dialplan, which allows a successful Dial to terminate the
> sequence.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
> Tony
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