asterisk users - Mar 2010 - Custom App

Hi, 

Trying for figure out how to write a custom app for asterisk, without
neccisarrily having to utilize the AGI interface. I want to accomplish this
in the dial plan if possible.
What I am trying to do is to write a application which is like the directory
but runs through all the extensions.
My thought for this was to utilize the voicemail.conf [default] context, as
any of the voicemail users will have the ?greet.wav? message set and could
use this file to play. However I don?t know how to do a ?for? loop in the
asterisk context.

Here is the algorithm I am trying to follow:

For i in [default];   <-- default context of the voicemail.conf file
    check if exist (/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/device/$i/greet.wav);
    do Playback(/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/device/$i/greet.wav);
    Wait(1)
    Playback(extension)
    SayDigits($i); 
Done

Can anyone give me any suggestion on how I may implement this?

Thanks

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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Sascha Ferley wrote:
> Trying for figure out how to write a custom app for asterisk, without 
> neccisarrily having to utilize the AGI interface. I want to accomplish 
> this in the dial plan if possible. What I am trying to do is to write a 
> application which is like the directory but runs through all the 
> extensions. My thought for this was to utilize the voicemail.conf 
> [default] context, as any of the voicemail users will have the 
> ?greet.wav? message set and could use this file to play. However I don?t 
> know how to do a ?for? loop in the asterisk context.
>
> Here is the algorithm I am trying to follow:
>
> For i in [default];   <-- default context of the voicemail.conf file
>    check if exist (/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/device/$i/greet.wav);
>    do Playback(/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/device/$i/greet.wav);
>    Wait(1)
>    Playback(extension)
>    SayDigits($i);
> Done
>
> Can anyone give me any suggestion on how I may implement this?
Use AGI. Parsing a text file and checking for file existence will be ugly 
in dialplan.

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