asterisk users - May 2005 - Pre-Parse Extensions.conf?

Is there a way to pre-parse your extensions.conf so you can check for errors
before making it live?

ARA Extensions is a really cool tool and will allow us to let our customers
create/manage their own dialplans. It would be nice if when a customer
changes their dialplan that it gets parsed and checked for errors before
being inserted into the database.

-Matthew

Matthew Boehm wrote:
> Is there a way to pre-parse your extensions.conf so you can check for
errors
> before making it live?
No, there is not. And any pre-parser that existed today would be 
incomplete anyway, because most of the dialplan is not actually parsed 
until the applications are called (i.e. it's not parsed a load time, but 
at run time).

There have been discussions about improving the dialplan/application 
interfaces in a way that would allow for load-time parsing, but there 
hasn't been any movement in that direction yet. If that does happen, 
you'd at least be able to load your dialplan in a separate
"testing"
instance of Asterisk to see if it parses properly.