asterisk users - Aug 2015 - Modifying CDR values from a hangup extension in Asterisk 13

Hi,

I'm trying to migrate from Asterisk 1.8 to Asterisk 13 and can't figure 
this one out. I'm pretty sure the question has been already asked, but I 
failed to find a solution.

Can you modify CDR values in an h-extension?

My cdr.conf contains:
[general]
enable=yes
unanswered=yes
endbeforehexten=yes
initiatedseconds=no
batch=no

The diaplan contains a simple "h" extension
exten => h,1,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
exten => h,n,Set(CDR(userfield)=changed)
exten => h,n,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})

In the same context I execute:
exten => 10,1,Set(CDR(userfield)=empty)
exten => 10,n,Dial(SIP/10)

The "h" extension outputs two lines with userfield set to
"empty". I
would expect the second one to be "changed". It seems that I can read 
the CDR values, but I can't change them. Is it a bug or a design thing? 
Am I missing something?

Thank you,
Filip

> I'm trying to migrate from Asterisk 1.8 to Asterisk 13 and can't
figure this one out. I'm
> pretty sure the question has been already asked, but I failed to find a
solution.
>
> Can you modify CDR values in an h-extension?
>
> My cdr.conf contains:
> [general]
> enable=yes
> unanswered=yes
> endbeforehexten=yes
> initiatedseconds=no
> batch=no
>
> The diaplan contains a simple "h" extension
> exten => h,1,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
> exten => h,n,Set(CDR(userfield)=changed)
> exten => h,n,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
>
> In the same context I execute:
> exten => 10,1,Set(CDR(userfield)=empty)
> exten => 10,n,Dial(SIP/10)
>
> The "h" extension outputs two lines with userfield set to
"empty". I would expect the second
> one to be "changed". It seems that I can read the CDR values, but
I can't change them. Is it a
> bug or a design thing? Am I missing something?
I am not working with h-extensions myself, but the docs 
(https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+Configuration_cdr) say
something like this:

|endbeforehexten| 
<https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+Configuration_cdr#Asterisk13Configuration_cdr-general_endbeforehexten>

	

|Boolean|

	

|1|

	

|false|

	

Don't produce CDRs while executing hangup logic


This would indicate that at least writing is disabled.

jg
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With endbeforehexten=no I actually get two CDR entries. One for the call 
and a second one for the "h" extension.
"","13","10","sip-locals","""13""
<13>","SIP/13-00000006","SIP/10-00000007","Dial","SIP/10","2015-08-04
06:28:44","2015-08-04 06:28:45","2015-08-04 
06:28:47",3,1,"ANSWERED","DOCUMENTATION","1438669724.6","empty"
"","13","h","sip-locals","""13""
<13>","SIP/13-00000006","","NoOp","changed","2015-08-04
06:28:47","2015-08-04 06:28:47","2015-08-04 
06:28:47",0,0,"ANSWERED","DOCUMENTATION","1438669724.6","changed"
The first one contains the call itself. There are durations, CDR 
variables set during the call, etc.
The second one contains only things configured in the "h" extension.

With endbeforehexten=yes, the cdr contains:
"","13","10","sip-locals","""13""
<13>","SIP/13-00000006","SIP/10-00000007","Dial","SIP/10","2015-08-04
06:28:44","2015-08-04 06:28:45","2015-08-04 
06:28:47",3,1,"ANSWERED","DOCUMENTATION","1438669724.6","empty"
There is only the call, nothing from the "h" extension.

I forgot to mention that I'm using Asterisk 13.1-cert2. Modifying CDR 
records in the "h" extension used to work fine with Asterisk 1.8.

By analyzing the code I must confirm that the endbeforehexten option 
behaves exactly according to its description:
  As each CDR for a channel is finished, its end time is updated
  and the CDR is finalized. When a channel is hung up and hangup
  logic is present (in the form of a hangup handler or the
  <literal>h</literal> extension), a new CDR is generated for the
  channel. Any statistics are gathered from this new CDR. By enabling
  this option, no new CDR is created for the dialplan logic that is
  executed in <literal>h</literal> extensions or attached hangup
handler
  subroutines. The default value is <literal>yes</literal>,
indicating
  that a CDR will be generated during hangup logic.</para>

I tried to delay the "h" extension by several seconds and I found out,
that the CDR record is sent to the cdr backend later. Unfortunately, it 
is not modifiable from the "h" extension, because the cdr_object is 
already in the finalized table.

Is there a way how to modify the CDR without hacking the code?

How bad idea is it to comment the (it_cdr->fn_table == 
&finalized_state_fn_table) tests in ast_cdr_setuserfield and 
ast_cdr_setvar and thus allow the "h" extension write to a finalized
CDR?

Is there any chance the feature was left out by an accident and if so, 
is there a plan to add it again?


My extensions.conf:
exten => h,1,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
exten => h,n,Set(CDR(userfield)=changed)
exten => h,n,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
exten => h,n,System(sleep 5)
exten => h,n,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
exten => 10,1,Set(CDR(userfield)=empty)
exten => 10,n,Dial(SIP/10)

Detailed log:
http://pastebin.com/fZ9RAhL4


On 08/03/2015 04:36 PM, jg wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to migrate from Asterisk 1.8 to Asterisk 13 and
can't
>> figure this one out. I'm pretty sure the question has been already 
>> asked, but I failed to find a solution.
>>
>> Can you modify CDR values in an h-extension?
>>
>> My cdr.conf contains:
>> [general]
>> enable=yes
>> unanswered=yes
>> endbeforehexten=yes
>> initiatedseconds=no
>> batch=no
>>
>> The diaplan contains a simple "h" extension
>> exten => h,1,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
>> exten => h,n,Set(CDR(userfield)=changed)
>> exten => h,n,NoOp(${CDR(userfield)})
>>
>> In the same context I execute:
>> exten => 10,1,Set(CDR(userfield)=empty)
>> exten => 10,n,Dial(SIP/10)
>>
>> The "h" extension outputs two lines with userfield set to
"empty". I
>> would expect the second one to be "changed". It seems that I
can read
>> the CDR values, but I can't change them. Is it a bug or a design 
>> thing? Am I missing something?
> I am not working with h-extensions myself, but the docs 
> (https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+Configuration_cdr) 
> say something like this:
>
> |endbeforehexten| 
>
<https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+Configuration_cdr#Asterisk13Configuration_cdr-general_endbeforehexten>
>
> 	
>
> |Boolean|
>
> 	
>
> |1|
>
> 	
>
> |false|
>
> 	
>
> Don't produce CDRs while executing hangup logic
>
>
> This would indicate that at least writing is disabled.
>
> jg
>
>
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