[asterisk-users] Asterisk 11 and stdexten written in AEL invoked by pbx_config

[Octavio Ruiz]

I wonder if anyone in the list find useful to write stdexten in AEL
instead of in extensions.conf syntax. I do, but probably I'm just
alone.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Octavio Ruiz <tacvbo at tacvbo.net> wrote:
> Almost two years ago, a change between how AEL code is built into
> Asterisk dialplan between minor versions made clear the need to
> provide a sane entry point into AEL subroutines and that's how
> AELSub() born.
>
> With Asterisk 11 release, they way [stdexten] at extensions.conf is
> invoked changed from Macro to Gosub using the 'missing context
> feature' and this caused that any stdexten written in anything else
> but extensions.conf (AEL, LUA, etc, being these not able to define an
> arbitrary priority) will not work.
>
> The only way to workaround this is to fallback to Macro() and write
> macro-contexts in AEL with the stack limit implications of them so I'm
> proposing to add to asterisk.conf configuration the ability to invoke
> stdexten using  AELSub() so stdexten can be again be written in AEL
> mantaining real backward compatiblity as it did the fact that you are
> able to fallback to Macro.
>
> ;stdexten = gosub ; How to invoke the extensions.conf stdexten.
> ; macro  - Invoke the stdexten using a macro as
> ;          done by legacy Asterisk versions.
> ; aelsub - Invoke the stdexten sutbroutine using AELSub
> ;          when stdexten is defined in AEL.
> ; gosub  - Invoke the stdexten using a gosub as
> ;          documented in extensions.conf.sample.
>
> I've already started this conversation on the development lists, you
> can follow up it at:
>
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2012-August/056666.html
>
> and there is a working patch submited to JIRA here:
>
> https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20355
>
> I would like to read your comments.
>
> Best,