asterisk users - Jan 2006 - "Catch all" extension

Hi all,

What do you think about having a single extension in the dialplan that matches
everything and then delegates the next action to an external application
through AGI? I mean something like this:

exten => _.,1,AGI,catchall.agi,${EXTEN}

Then, catchall.agi could EXEC dialplan macros in function of choices (e.g.
SQL queries to perform LCR, ...)

I think it could be powerful... but what could I miss here?

Cheers,

Alex

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exten => _X.,1,AGI,catchall.agi,${EXTEN}


should do it for u






> Hi all,
> 
> What do you think about having a single extension in the dialplan that
> matches everything and then delegates the next action to an external
> application through AGI? I mean something like this:
> 
> exten => _.,1,AGI,catchall.agi,${EXTEN}
> 
> Then, catchall.agi could EXEC dialplan macros in function of choices
> (e.g. SQL queries to perform LCR, ...)
> 
> I think it could be powerful... but what could I miss here?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex
> 
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> exten => _X.,1,AGI,catchall.agi,${EXTEN}
> 
> 
> should do it for u

Hi,

since I also have some "applications" that starts with "*",
like

[app-clir]
exten => _*67.,1,SetCallerPres(prohib)
exten => _*67.,2,Goto(${EXTEN:3},1)

I thought I could use "_." instead of "_X.", that would
match only numbers.
However, what do you think about this single extension replacing the *whole*
dialplan?
I mean that

exten => 200,1,Dial(SIP/200)
exten => 300,1,Dial(IAX/300)
exten => _0.,1,Macro(dialout,${EXTEN})

and so on would be replaced by that single extension, and then the script will
do the rest.

Thanks,

Alex

Alex wrote:
>> exten => _X.,1,AGI,catchall.agi,${EXTEN}
>>
>>
>> should do it for u
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> since I also have some "applications" that starts with
"*", like
> 
> [app-clir]
> exten => _*67.,1,SetCallerPres(prohib)
> exten => _*67.,2,Goto(${EXTEN:3},1)
> 
> I thought I could use "_." instead of "_X.", that would
match only numbers.
> However, what do you think about this single extension replacing the 
> *whole* dialplan?
> I mean that
> 
> exten => 200,1,Dial(SIP/200)
> exten => 300,1,Dial(IAX/300)
> exten => _0.,1,Macro(dialout,${EXTEN})
> 
> and so on would be replaced by that single extension, and then the 
> script will do the rest.
It would also need to deal with s,h,i,t,a extensions also if you match 
by _.

This also means that you have to be really carefull about calling hangup 
etc from inside the macro.

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Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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Alex wrote:
>> exten => _X.,1,AGI,catchall.agi,${EXTEN}
>>
>>
>> should do it for u
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> since I also have some "applications" that starts with
"*", like
> 
> [app-clir]
> exten => _*67.,1,SetCallerPres(prohib)
> exten => _*67.,2,Goto(${EXTEN:3},1)
> 
> I thought I could use "_." instead of "_X.", that would
match only numbers.
> However, what do you think about this single extension replacing the 
> *whole* dialplan?
> I mean that
> 
> exten => 200,1,Dial(SIP/200)
> exten => 300,1,Dial(IAX/300)
> exten => _0.,1,Macro(dialout,${EXTEN})
> 
> and so on would be replaced by that single extension, and then the 
> script will do the rest.
You would be better off with two extensions rather than _.

_X.,1
_a.,1

Which would also catch the asterisk.

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Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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