asterisk users - Oct 2004 - recent 's' and 'n' priorities and lables

Hi all,

With the recent 's' and 'n' priorities, as well as the advantage
of
labels, dialplan management has become *much* simpler IMHO.

However, I have one suggestion for possible improvement.  In any of the 
Goto[If|IfTime] statements, the ability to do 's' + a number or label + 
a number would be _nice_.

Example extensions.conf:

exten => 1,1,NoOp(Start)
exten => 1,n,GotoIf($[${SOMETEST}]?:s+2)
exten => 1,n,NoOp(Do something)         ; target if SOMETEST = 1
exten => 1,n,NoOp(Do some other stuff)  ; target if SOMETEST = 0
exten => 1,n,NoOp(Finish)


turns into (pseudo-code):

print 'Start'
if (sometest)
{
	print 'Do something if sometest evaluates to true'
}
print 'Do some other stuff'
print 'Finish'


I realize that this could be implemented other ways, and might not even 
have much use, but it would nice regardless.  The basic idea boils down 
to this, be able to use the recent aliases and convenience features 
everywhere they might be needed/wanted (namely, all the different goto's).

If this already exists, please hit me with the clue stick ;)

Thanks,
Chris

-- 
Christopher L. Wade                     Unistar-Sparco Computers, Inc.
Senior Systems Administrator                            dba Sparco.com
Email: clwade@sparco.com                             7089 Ryburn Drive
Phone: (901) 872 2272 / (800) 840 8400            Millington, TN 38053
Fax:   (901) 872 8482                                              USA

On Thursday 07 October 2004 19:03, Christopher L. Wade
wrote:
> However, I have one suggestion for possible improvement.  In any of the
> Goto[If|IfTime] statements, the ability to do 's' + a number or
label +
> a number would be _nice_.
oh baby yes please!  That would just rock the house...  
> exten => 1,n,GotoIf($[${SOMETEST}]?:s+2)
does :somelabel work?  (i.e. no s)?  gotoif help seems to indicate this is so.

-A.

Christopher L. Wade wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the recent 's' and 'n' priorities, as well as the
advantage of
> labels, dialplan management has become *much* simpler IMHO.
>
Looking at your sample made me think of another Asterisk contributor, the
author of astcl... Sample below...

/Soren

############################################################
##
## astcllib.tcl
## 13 April 2004
##
## Library for Astcl 0.1
## Reed Wade <reed@cadre5.com>
##
## Astcl is free software, distributed under the terms of
## the GNU General Public License
##
############################################################

CONFIGURATION

At startup, astcl does this:
 - creates an interpreter instance
 - sets a global tcl variable AST_CONFIG_DIR to the value of
   the Asterisk config directory (normally /etc/asterisk)
 - creates a command named "context"
 - evaluates $AST_CONFIG_DIR/astcllib.tcl
 - evaluates $AST_CONFIG_DIR/astcl.conf

astcl.conf evaluates as a normal tcl script but has access to the
AST_CONFIG_DIR variable and three new commands: context, user and ext

The context command takes one argument, the name of a new context to
be created. It creates the context, then it creates a new tcl command
with the same name as the context. If you're familiar with TK, this is
similar to the widget creation scheme.

This new command is used in four different ways: to create extensions,
to includes other contexts, add a switch and to set the ignorepat.
Normally, you will not create extensions directly, the "ext"
convenience
function provides a sweeter interface.


Example (see samples/astcl.conf for a better one):

set TRUNK Zap/g2

context demo

demo includes othercontext
demo ignorepat 9
demo switch IAX2/blah


ext demo _91NXXNXXXXXX {
        SetCallerID 8656904442|a
        Dial $TRUNK/${EXTEN:1}
        Congestion ""
}


user TYS \
        "Reed Wade" reed@cadre5.com \
        310 Zap/3&IAX2/reedwade
user TYS \
        "Chris Luttrell" cgluttrell@cadre5.com \
        303 Zap/2


context staffExtensions

ext staffExtensions TYS {
        Dial $line|20|r
        ifbusy {
                Voicemail b$extension
                Goto default|s|1
        }
        Voicemail u$extension
        Goto default|s|1
}