Why use this rather than STREAM FILE? On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 16:50, Paul Crick wrote: > ** REPOST: A week later and no feedback - am I the only one > ** who'd find this functionality useful? No other AGI stuff > ** out there needing something similar? > > I'd like some feedback on potentially submitting a request (and probably a > patch too) to change the way the AGI command GET DATA works. > > Right now, # terminates the entry, which is then returned with the # > stripped off the end. What I'd like is to allow user configurable > termination digits, which are not stripped off the end. > > Reasoning: Some entries you'd like to terminate with #. Right now it's fine, > you can tell if # was pressed or not by looking for the lack of a (timeout) > entry in the returned result. You may want to allow * to cancel an entry. > This is not possible right now. Systems I've coded previously allow # to > terminate and complete a digit entry, * to correct an incorrect entry > (playing the prompt again and restarting digit collection). Pressing * with > no prior digit entry cancels the step and returns to the previous menu. > > I guess there's a compatibility issue with stuff that's out there already > but if it was an optional 4th parameter this would be backwards compatible. > > Proposed new syntax: > GET DATA <filename> <timeout> <maxdigits> <terminator> > > If terminator is specified (and it may be multicharacter, like "*#" to give > me the functionality above), return the digit string collected so far, > including the terminating digit. The calling app can strip the trailing > character if needed. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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