[asterisk-users] Best way to update ever changing dialplans

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 06/25/2018 09:54 AM, Dovid Bender wrote:
> I am working on a system where I connect to an external API and based on what it gives me I generate the Asterisk dial plan accordingly. I am thinking about my different options 
> and wanted feedback from others on how to best do it.
> 1) Generate conf files for Asterisk - This seems the easiest but then I will be doing a dial plan reload on all of my dial plan for handful of lines of code. The plus side is once 
> reload is don the dial plan is in memory.
> 2) Using real time + mysql - Seems like an overkill to have mysql running taking resources for a few lines.
> 3) Using real time + sqlite3 - This seems like the best option but then we go to disk every time there is a call.
> 
> Any other options that I am not thinking of?
> 

I don't think you missed any options.

Call me silly, number 2 has always been my preference.  Flat file configuration bugs me except for the simplest
of things.

Since you mention the external API, you already have a fairly complex environment... And pretty likely to have, at
some point, multiple asterisk instances.  Surprise! The realtime mysql dialplan can be shared among them.

But I'm crazy that way.