asterisk users - Nov 2003 - agi exec problem.

hi folks.

(apologies in advance if this is a particularly stupid question)

just getting my feet wet with asterisk / agi, and am a little stuck using
EXEC. it works fine for applicaitons that take simple arguments, but
chokes on applications that require multiple words as arguments.

for example, this works fine:
 EXEC Playback(demo-congrats)

but this doesn't:
 EXEC add extension s,3,Playback(demo-congrats) into local

problem seems to be that AGI reads the second example to be:
 EXEC add extension

and ignores the rest (presumably because it assumes the space after
'extension' singifies the end of the argument)

is there a way around this?

thanks,
tad

On Sunday 23 November 2003 20:17, tad wrote:
> hi folks.
>
> (apologies in advance if this is a particularly stupid question)
>
> just getting my feet wet with asterisk / agi, and am a little stuck
> using EXEC. it works fine for applicaitons that take simple
> arguments, but chokes on applications that require multiple words as
> arguments.
>
> for example, this works fine:
>  EXEC Playback(demo-congrats)
>
> but this doesn't:
>  EXEC add extension s,3,Playback(demo-congrats) into local
>
> problem seems to be that AGI reads the second example to be:
>  EXEC add extension
>
> and ignores the rest (presumably because it assumes the space after
> 'extension' singifies the end of the argument)
>
> is there a way around this?
You're confusing the CLI with applications.  You can _only_ EXEC an
application.  See the CLI command 'show applications' for a list of the
applications you can EXEC.

-Tilghman

asterisk*CLI> show agi
              answer   Asserts answer
      wait for digit   Waits for a digit to be pressed
           send text   Sends text to channels supporting it
        receive char   Receives text from channels supporting it
            tdd mode   Sends text to channels supporting it
         stream file   Sends audio file on channel
          send image   Sends images to channels supporting it
          say digits   Says a given digit string
          say number   Says a given number
            get data   Gets data on a channel
         set context   Sets channel context
       set extension   Changes channel extension
        set priority   Prioritizes the channel
         record file   Records to a given file
      set autohangup   Autohangup channel in some time
              hangup   Hangup the current channel
                exec   Executes a given Application
        set callerid   Sets callerid for the current channel
      channel status   Returns status of the connected channel
        set variable   Sets a channel variable
        get variable   Gets a channel variable
             verbose   Logs a message to the asterisk verbose log
        database get   Gets database value
        database put   Adds/updates database value
        database del   Removes database key/value
    database deltree   Removes database keytree/value
                noop   Does nothing
           set music   Enable/Disable Music on hold generator


I don't see add extension in the list of AGI commands.

bkw

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, tad wrote:
> hi folks.
>
> (apologies in advance if this is a particularly stupid question)
>
> just getting my feet wet with asterisk / agi, and am a little stuck using
> EXEC. it works fine for applicaitons that take simple arguments, but
> chokes on applications that require multiple words as arguments.
>
> for example, this works fine:
>  EXEC Playback(demo-congrats)
>
> but this doesn't:
>  EXEC add extension s,3,Playback(demo-congrats) into local
>
> problem seems to be that AGI reads the second example to be:
>  EXEC add extension
>
> and ignores the rest (presumably because it assumes the space after
> 'extension' singifies the end of the argument)
>
> is there a way around this?
>
> thanks,
> tad
>
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