asterisk users - Nov 2006 - some questions about atxfer usage

Hi all.

I have enabled the attended transfer feature in features.conf. I'm
using it and I want to resolve some questions, I hope someone can help
me :)

When I transfer a call to an extension:
 - The extension rings during 15 seconds and the call returns to the
"transferer". Is there any possibility to recover the call before the
timeout of 15 seconds expires?

I mean, I would like to personalize the way of making transfers using
the feature of atxfer. How can I do that?


Thanks in advance.

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 13:54 +0100, Antonio Almod?var
wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have enabled the attended transfer feature in features.conf. I'm
> using it and I want to resolve some questions, I hope someone can help
> me :)
> 
> When I transfer a call to an extension:
>  - The extension rings during 15 seconds and the call returns to the
> "transferer". Is there any possibility to recover the call before
the
> timeout of 15 seconds expires?
> 
I just press * to retrieve the caller again - Have you tried that?
> I mean, I would like to personalize the way of making transfers using
> the feature of atxfer. How can I do that?
anything in particular?

Conrad

Antonio Almod?var ha scritto:
> Hi all.
>
> I have enabled the attended transfer feature in features.conf. I'm
> using it and I want to resolve some questions, I hope someone can help
> me :)
>
> When I transfer a call to an extension:
> - The extension rings during 15 seconds and the call returns to the
> "transferer". Is there any possibility to recover the call before
the
> timeout of 15 seconds expires?
>
> I mean, I would like to personalize the way of making transfers using
> the feature of atxfer. How can I do that?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Hi Antonio.

Taking a look at the following code line from res_features.c:

newchan = ast_feature_request_and_dial(transferer,
    "Local",
    ast_best_codec(transferer->nativeformats),
    dialstr,
    15000,          // <-------------------!!!!
    &outstate,
    cid_num,
    cid_name);

I assume that 15000 msecs is a hardcoded value...
You might want to replace it with some variable taken from 
pbx_builtin_getvar_helper() results
but it involves recompiling at least the res_features.c module; 
something more or less
like this (I haven't tested it!!!):

//these two lines go at the beginning of the if {} block
char *transfer_timeout_str;
int transfer_timeout = 15; //default value

//these lines replace the newchan = ast_feature_request_and_dial(...) one
//read the value (if any) from TRANSFER_TIMEOUT
//can be set in extensions.conf's [globals] (TRANSFER_TIMEOUT => 30)
transfer_timeout_str = pbx_builtin_getvar_helper(transferer, 
"TRANSFER_TIMEOUT");
if (transfer_timeout_str) {
    transfer_timeout = atoi(transfer_timeout_str);
    //sanity check
    if (transfer_timeout <= 0) transfer_timeout = 15;
}
newchan = ast_feature_request_and_dial(transferer,
    "Local",
    ast_best_codec(transferer->nativeformats),
    dialstr,
    transfer_timeout * 1000,          // <-------------------!!!!
    &outstate,
    cid_num,
    cid_name);

Bye,
Alberto.

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