[asterisk-users] CDR Design

[Freddi Hansen]

>   I agree with the fact that the base is broken and needs to be fixed 
> first.
>
> -- 
We wouldn't have this discussion if we had a close to perfect CDR design 
that just needed some 'fixing'.
The processes of just adding another couple of patches has been ongoing 
for more than year now.
I think that phase 1 should be creation of the new CDR's according  to 
Steve's spec.
A phase 2 could be an addon to CDR module or external script that would 
create a CDR record exactly as the old CDR record so we maintain 
backward compatibility with peoples existing billing systems that run on 
CDR's.
Imagine that the existing CDR module collect  the events  as the are 
generated and then when it would create the CDR as it does now it runs 
the config controlled interpreter that convert the eventlist to the old 
CDR records. For simple Asterisk usage it would stil work 
'out-of-the-box' with existing callingcard billing a.s.o.
So for those that 'just' want simple CDR's this change wouldn't change 
anything as long as they don't lift the hood.

The benefit would be that all event generation would be decoupled from 
the business logic thats in place for CDR generation and users may have 
control over that business logic.
Using these events for 'realtime' stuff is anther spinoff but not the 
primary reason

my 2 cent.
Freddi