[asterisk-users] Parsing Asterisk's .conf files from Perl, Java or PHP file

[Matt Watson]

There already is a special character to tell asterisk not to parse a line...
its: ";"  that is why the default configuration is completely filled with
lines that start with ;  its considered a comment character to asterisk and
will make it ignore the line... you'd just want to add some extra characters
to your program probably... something that would denote "this is a config
line for script A"

so if you make your lines something like


;A:

then you could have another character for script B that would have lines in
the same file like:

;B:

or w/e... its up to you to determine what characters you'd want to use
beyond the ; to denote config lines for your other programs.

--
Matt

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> To a large extend, Asterisk's /etc/asterisk/*.conf configuration files
> conform to a format such as:
>
> [section1]
> key1=value1
> key2=value2
>
> [section2]
> key1=value1
> key2=value2
> ...
>
> To increase coherence when running custom-made application in Perl, Java,
> PHP, ...) and Asterisk on the same platform, I'm wondering if could extend a
> bit Asterisk's config files instead of duplicating data in an independant
> config file.
>
> For instance, an app that uses Manager interface needs to be configured
> with :
> - the Asterisk manager interface IP address,
> - a username and secret.
>
> The later 2 parameters are included /etc/asterisk/manager.conf but the
> first one is not.
> So instead of writing an independant myapp.conf holding all 3 parameters,
> should I only add the first parameter to existing manager.conf file ?
>
> Doing this, I would have to make sure that when Asterisk is parsing its
> config file, it doesn't stop when it reads unkown supplementary parameters
> (those added for custom app).
> It seems to be the case now with 1.6.1 : a NOTICE warning is sent but it
> doesn't really hurt.
> [May 22 09:15:32] NOTICE[15917]: manager.c:3903 __init_manager: Invalid
> keyword <foo> = <bar> in manager.conf [general]
>
> Maybe, adding a keyword that would tell Asterisk to skip reading this
> config file line would be a plus (avoiding warnings and collision with new
> keywords).
> What do you think ?
>
> Then, my next question, is there widely available librairies to parse
> Asterisk's config files-like files ?
>
> Regards
>
>
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