[asterisk-users] application call to Gosub affects flow of control, and needs to be re-written using AEL

[Benoit]

  Le 23/07/2010 16:44, Zeeshan Zakaria a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I try to avoid any warnings, as they can  turn into errors later.
well, that's exactly the point of this inquiry :)
>
> I remember having problems with GoSub long time ago, don't remember 
> what it was, but I moved to macros after that.
>
> For what you are trying to achieve, I use macros. Just jump to a 
> macro, evaluate what you need to, save the results in variables, and 
> use these variables in the calling context to proceed further. For 
> example, in my context for outbound calls, called [outbound], I jump 
> to macro [user-account-info], get account info, come back to 
> [outbound], then jump to [blacklist], check the caller ID against a 
> blacklist, come back to [outbound], jump to two other macros, and 
> finally I have all the info I need to proceed with a call, stored in 
> various variables. Based on these variables I trigger the Dial 
> command, or do something else as needed.
>
> In your case, you can make it even simpler, e.g. like this:
Already though of this, doesn't really suit the need.

The extract was only a really short version of the original system, the 
routing is a bit more complex than that
and redoing it using if/switch won't be very efficient, especially since 
context are really made for this.