[asterisk-users] Asterisk parking hold and transferdigittimeo ut

[Guido Hecken]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jared Smith [mailto:jsmith at digium.com] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 13:01
> An: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Betreff: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk parking hold and 
> transferdigittimeout
> 
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:30 +0100, Guido Hecken wrote:
> > Now, what happens:
> > 
> > Call for 9556230 reaches capi-in, is redirected through 
> include statement to
> > capi-in-sub and executed.
> > So far so fine, expected behaviour.
> > 
> > Call for 95562315 reaches capi-in and is executed direct, 
> the include
> > directive isn't executed at all!
> > Why?
> > Through the include statement, asterisk has to look first 
> in capi-in-sub,
> > there it should
> > find this extension:
> > exten => 95562315,1,DoSomethingAnybodyWouldExpect()
> > ...
> > 
> > and follow the dialplan under capi-in-sub since a valid 
> extension was found.
> > 
> > What's wrong, any ideas?
> 
> This is a very popular misconception regarding include statements, so
> let me try to reiterate how includes work.
> 
> When a call comes into a particular context, Asterisk looks for the
> following items:
> 
> 1) Exact matches in the current context.  If a match is 
> found, Asterisk
> will not continue searching.
> 2) Pattern matches in the current context.  If at least one pattern
> match is found that matches the dialed extension, Asterisk will not
> continue searching (even if a better match is included .
> 3) Any "switch =>" statements.  These can be used for remote dialplan
> lookups, realtime dialplan lookups, DUNDi, etc.  If Asterisk finds at
> least one match, it will not continue searching.
> 4) Any included contexts.  These will be followed in order, 
> and for each
> included context, this same list will be applied.
> 
> In your example above, you somehow assumed that the included context
> would be searched, even though Asterisk already found a match in the
> current context.

Hi Jared,

thanks for your general explanations on using contexts and includes.
Since I have your book in my rack, I really should have done some better
reading and obviously understanding ;-)
Homework done, lesson  learned!

Regards,

Guido
 
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