asterisk users - Oct 2009 - AGI STREAM FILE and not blocking execution

Hello,

I'm wondering if I can take benefits of long prompts to compute in the
background the next step to be performed by Asterisk.

Do you know what will be the behavior of asterisk if I send a STREAM
FILE command immediately followed by another command ? Will asterisk
stack commands or will it stop the first one to execute the second one
?

If stops, is there any AGI library that handles this kind of behavior
or should I code it myself using callback methods ?

Thanks in advance for your answer

Patrick

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Patrick wrote:
> I'm wondering if I can take benefits of long prompts to compute in the 
> background the next step to be performed by Asterisk.
I did this a few years ago so that I could process a credit card 
authorization request while the "Please wait..." prompt was playing.

I did it by creating a new thread (in C) in my AGI to play the prompt.

Usually I get the card response before the prompt finishes playing so to 
the caller it's "instantaneous."

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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 08:43 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> I'm wondering if I can take benefits of long prompts to compute in the
> background the next step to be performed by Asterisk.
> 
> Do you know what will be the behavior of asterisk if I send a STREAM
> FILE command immediately followed by another command ? Will asterisk
> stack commands or will it stop the first one to execute the second one
> ?
If you want non-blocking (asynchronous) commands, check out the
ExternalIVR interface instead of using AGI.



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