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<h2><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Tips+and+Tricks">Tips and Tricks</a></h2>
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<tr><td class="diff-added-lines" style="background-color: #dfd;">h2. Long Running Operations (Autoservcie) <br> <br>Before starting long running operations, an autoservice should be started using the {{autoservice_start()}} function. An autoservice will ensure that the user hears a continuous stream of audio while your lua code works in the background. This autoservice will automatically be stopped before executing applications and dialplan functions and will be restarted afterwards. The autoservice can be stopped using autoservice_stop() and the autoservice_status() function will return {{true}} if an autoservice is currently running. <br> <br>{code} <br>app.startmusiconhold() <br> <br>autoservice_start() <br>do_expensive_db_query() <br>autoservice_stop() <br> <br>app.stopmusiconhold() <br>{code} <br> <br>{note} <br>In Asterisk 1.10 an autoservice is automatically started for you by default. <br>{note} <br></td></tr>
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<h2><a name="TipsandTricks-LongRunningOperations%28Autoservcie%29"></a>Long Running Operations (Autoservcie)</h2>
<p>Before starting long running operations, an autoservice should be started using the <tt>autoservice_start()</tt> function. An autoservice will ensure that the user hears a continuous stream of audio while your lua code works in the background. This autoservice will automatically be stopped before executing applications and dialplan functions and will be restarted afterwards. The autoservice can be stopped using autoservice_stop() and the autoservice_status() function will return <tt>true</tt> if an autoservice is currently running.</p>
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<pre class="theme: Confluence; brush: java; gutter: false">app.startmusiconhold()
autoservice_start()
do_expensive_db_query()
autoservice_stop()
app.stopmusiconhold()</pre>
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<div class='panelMacro'><table class='noteMacro'><colgroup><col width='24'><col></colgroup><tr><td valign='top'><img src="/wiki/images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"></td><td>In Asterisk 1.10 an autoservice is automatically started for you by default.</td></tr></table></div>
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