asterisk users - Oct 2003 - Feedback request: AGI GET DATA change termination digits

Hi, this is my 1.st response to this list, i hope this will work.

I tend to agree with Steven since just allowing other termination digits probaly
wont solve your upcoming the issues anyway. I use a wrapper around the 'get
digit' which allows me to specify that the * digit repeats the menu but
maxium 3 times and if the * star digit is used twice in sequence (without other
digits inbetween ) then it means 'go to the menulevel above current
level'.
This was todays 'noise' from me.
Freddi

Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Feedback request: AGI GET DATA change -
	termination digits
From: Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:14:14 -0500
Reply-To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com

While that change is fine, you could also just write the same
functionality with get digit and deal with it inside the AGI app.

On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 16:50, Paul Crick wrote:
>> ** REPOST: A week later and no feedback - am I the only one
>> ** who'd find this functionality useful? No other AGI stuff
>> ** out there needing something similar?
>> 
>> I'd like some feedback on potentially submitting a request (and
probably a
>> patch too) to change the way the AGI command GET DATA works.
>> 
>> Right now, # terminates the entry, which is then returned with the #
>> stripped off the end. What I'd like is to allow user configurable
>> termination digits, which are not stripped off the end.
>> 
>> Reasoning: Some entries you'd like to terminate with #. Right now
it's fine,
>> you can tell if # was pressed or not by looking for the lack of a
(timeout)
>> entry in the returned result. You may want to allow * to cancel an
entry.
>> This is not possible right now. Systems I've coded previously allow
# to
>> terminate and complete a digit entry, * to correct an incorrect entry
>> (playing the prompt again and restarting digit collection). Pressing  *
with
>> no prior digit entry cancels the step and returns to the previous menu.
>> 
>> I guess there's a compatibility issue with stuff that's out
there already
>> but if it was an optional 4th parameter this would be backwards
compatible.
>> 
>> Proposed new syntax:
>>   GET DATA <filename> <timeout> <maxdigits>
<terminator>
>> 
>> If terminator is specified (and it may be multicharacter, like
"*#" to give
>> me the functionality above), return the digit string collected so far,
>> including the terminating digit. The calling app can strip the trailing
>> character if needed.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Paul
>> 
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