[asterisk-users] Asterisk Realtime Time Dial App

[Nick Khamis]

Hello David,

At first I assumed asterisk used call files out of the box for
normal-initiated/instantiated calls however,
this is incorrect. I think call files was the easy approach for client
just to place a file with call details
in some location. I am trying to do the same with a db record. My
first question is, how does asterisk
initiate calls, i.e. what part of the source code is responsible for
that. Are there any threads involved etc.

Cheers,

Nick.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:35 AM, David Moring <DMoring at tmcentral.net> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Understand your reasoning - though as Matt points out sql db isn't in the
> core so compiling it there would preclude seemless upgrades.  Also, I
> personally would be concerned putting the calls right into the call-file
> thread might create an issue if you hung on a db query or insert.  Finally
> (and I'd love to hear the answer not knowing), but I believe
> "normally-initiated/instantiated" calls are handled with direct calls via
> either SIP requests and/or AMI - thus even using the proposed method, I
> *think* the db/file-drop method is going to create some overhead that might
> not scale well...
>
> Best,
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Khamis <symack at gmail.com>
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:49:07 -0400
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Realtime Time Dial App
>
> Hello David,
>
> Thank you so much for your response. I am sure it can be easily done
> using AGI. The reason I am leaning more
> towards storing the call information in a database record, is because
> our existing client applications can be easily
> modified to write to MySQL. The asterisk cron/thread that would
> querying the DB should be no different than existing implementation
> used process the call files?
> For those of you that may be interested in what we are doing. We are
> developing an application that will apply NLP
> services on text generated using the speech to text module, and
> generate the response that will then be forwarded to
> the text to speech.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick
> .
>
>
>
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