RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk realtime extensions context inclusion

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:45:22 -0800

Thanks for the reply, it’s an approach I didn’t think of to simply include the information from the other contexts into where I would be including from. In most cases that would work, but not in my case. Each user of my system will be able to place outgoing calls using their own sip connection (as in one they create with sipgate or vonage etc). To ensure that each user can dial out with their own sip connection and nobody else’s they are each getting their own context and that context is the only place in the dialplan to dial that particular external sip connection. For a small amount of users it’s possible to include all the information in each context, however I’m dealing with 15,000 users and would like a database small enough to fit on the hard disk!

 

Would it not be possible to do something with the Goto app? In each persons dialplan I can have an extension to catch internal numbers and then forward to another context using exten => 1,1,Goto(context2) or something like that?

 

I have to stick with the database option as there are other applications that need quick access to the information it holds. It’s not really possible to generate the flat file for all the contexts when at some times that would mean generating the file over 1,000 a day and reloads of the database each time. If I can stick with the realtime database in any way, I would much prefer to.

 

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Sent: 14 November 2005 07:24
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk realtime extensions context inclusion

 

 

On 11/13/05, Daniel Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi

 

I'm using asterisk realtime to control all of my extensions. As part of this I need to be able to dynamically create new contexts and extensions. The new contexts I create will also include existing contexts. Does anybody know the how to specify context inclusion for asterisk realtime as the database only has colums for id, context, exten, priority, app and appdata.


You can't.  Since those other contexts are in the database, why not just select them and then insert them into the newly created context?

Or better yet dump realtime and generate extensions.conf from your own database schema.   You could even use the realtime schema with just a couple of extra fields for things like include files, that way you dont' have to throw away the work you have already done.

Asterisk doesn't handle database failures very well.  Maybe it's been fixed now, but for instance a dialplan reload used to wipe out your whole dialplan if the database was down instead of just skipping the reload.  I spent quite a bit of time writing an application for ARA at one point, only to toss it all out after seeing how it actually worked.  I still think it's a good idea,  and I don't mean to disparage those who put all the work into it, but it's implementation leaves something to be desired.

Chris  


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