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Steve Murphy wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 12:14 -0600, Brent Davidson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have two offices sharing a phone system. They also share a common
internal context because all of the employees of the second office also
work for the first office. Each office has 4 outside lines and I have
defined 2 channel groups in my zapata.conf. The second office needs all
of their outgoing calls to go out over their lines so the people they
call will have the correct callerID. I created an asterisk database and
with entries in the database for all extensions in the second office and
defined the following macro:
globals {
CONSOLE="Console/dsp";
TRUNK="Zap/r1";
TCTC_Operator=15;
Law_Operator=12;
};
macro outside-dial ( num ) {
if (${DB_EXISTS(Office/${CALLERID(num)})}) {
TRUNK="Zap/r2";
} else {
TRUNK="Zap/r1";
}
Dial(${TRUNK}/${num},,Ttok);
}
It's working and correctly routing outside calls, but I get the
following messages when I reload the extensions.ael file:
[Dec 23 12:16:22] WARNING[2994]: pbx_ael.c:2500 check_pval_item:
Warning: file /etc/asterisk/extensions.ael, line 93-93: expression
"Zap/r2" has operators, but no variables. Interesting...
[Dec 23 12:16:22] WARNING[2994]: pbx_ael.c:2500 check_pval_item:
Warning: file /etc/asterisk/extensions.ael, line 95-95: expression
"Zap/r1" has operators, but no variables. Interesting...
Any idea what is causing the warnings?
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Yes, I do! I was concerned that users were falling into a common
error, where they forget to wrap variable references in $(); so,
if it looks like an expr has arithmetic operators, but no variable
refs, then you get this message.
Yes, I *could* have made it more intelligent. File a bug, and I'll
see if I can do so. At the worst, you can ignore this warning, or
I can simply remove this overly-simple warning.
murf
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Well, before I file a bug I have another question... In AEL, what is
the correct syntax? Do all variable references still need to be
wrapped in ${} or not? If they do, then the documentation on
voip-info.org needs to be changed to reflect that.<br>
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Beyond that, what are the rules for putting the values assigned to
variables in quotes? In my example above, at one point I had a space
between the = and the Zap/r2 statement with no quotes. The value
assigned to TRUNK then included a leading space. I didn't test to see
whether or not putting a space after the variable name adds a space to
the variables name. I would think that any spaces after an operator
should be ignored unless the come after a single or double quote.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Brent<br>
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