[asterisk-users] #exec in #include'd file

[Steve Murphy]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Tilghman Lesher <
tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:

> On Monday 13 July 2009 17:19:15 Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> > Tilghman Lesher schrieb:
> > > On Monday 13 July 2009 01:03:48 pm Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> > >> Philipp Kempgen schrieb:
> > >> > Is Asterisk supposed to evaluate #exec's in an #include'd file?
> > >
> > > The directive "#exec" is not permitted in an AEL configuration file.
> >
> > I see, that would explain why it doesn't work. :-)
> >
> > But in that case it's a documentation issue. The extensions.conf
> > sample says: "The #exec command works on all asterisk configuration
> > files." I guess it should read "The #exec command works on all
> > asterisk *.conf files except for asterisk.conf."
> >
> > Is there a specific reason not to permit #exec in AEL files?
>

> It wasn't coded that way, and it's parsed in a completely different way
> than
> any other Asterisk configuration file.  I don't know the reason Murf didn't
> do '#exec' specifically, but I suspect it has to do with the complexity
> thereof.


I didn't "exclude" the #exec for any particular reason. I think it just
wasn't in the
original AEL (1.2) code, so I missed it... (or it escaped my all-powerful
eyes somehow).
If someone files a bug, I might be able to code up something to handle it in
future releases.
(just as a reminder for me). I guess you could, for the time being, put your
#exec stuff
in an extensions.conf file, and use the modules.conf tricks to preload the
extensions.conf
file first, if that is a requirement, as previously suggested...

murf



>
>
> > Is any *.conf file (which permits #exec) guaranteed to be read before
> > extensions.ael? It would then be possible to (ab)use an #exec in there
> > to trigger my generator script (which must not output anything then of
> > course). extconfig.conf? logger.conf? modules.conf? Ugly workaround
> > but doable.
>
> No, but you can force it by doing an explicit load of a particular module
> in
> modules.conf.  Explicitly loaded modules are loaded before all
> automatically-loaded modules.
>
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