On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:21 +0100, Philipp Kempgen wrote: > Steve Murphy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 20:42 +0100, Philipp Kempgen wrote: > >> Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:49:45PM +0100, Philipp Kempgen wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Does anyone know how to include a file in AEL using the > >>>> #include "filename" > >>>> syntax in .conf files? > >>> Yes, it is supported. > > > > Correct. It should assume that files are in /etc/asterisk, if that's > > what the config file dir is. If they are somewhere, use absolute paths. > > Sure. > > >>> (Technically: It is not part of the ael syntax. #include and #exec are > >>> preprocessing done before the ael parser gets to read the text.) > > Well, mostly true; the #include directives are obeyed at the lexical > > level of the AEL parser, which is underneath the parser. > > Ok. Thanks. > > >> Is there a way to include a .conf file from within .ael? > >> Or the other way round? > > > > No, there isn't. the extensions.conf format is entirely different than > > the AEL format, and the AEL parser will not read in extensions.conf > > formatted files. > > Ok, that's what I tried to do. Now I understand how things > are processed. > > >> BTW: Never heard of #exec. What does that do? Shell exec? > > > > The #exec option is available in the extensions.conf (and all config > > files, for that matter). It basically will run the command provided, and > > the output from it had better be the config file it wants to read in. > > Found it on the bug tracker. This seems really old but it's > not well known, is it? >
I can't really judge how known it is; but when it's handy, it can be
REAL handy. At Digium, for instance, we keep all our config files under
SVN, and the config
files are just #exec's for svn checkouts. All the admins have to do is
commit a change to the configs, and they will be loaded the next time
asterisk is reloaded or restarted....
> This is what I do:
>
> in extensions.conf:
>
> context voicemail
> {
> mailbox => {
> VoiceMailMain(${user_name},s);
> }
> #include "e-number-vmm.ael"
> }
>
> in e-number-vmm.ael:
>
> 80 => jump mailbox;
>
> So if the user wants to change the number to reach VoicemailMain
> - provided they use a web interface for that - e-number-vmm.ael
> can easily be parsed and adjusted accordingly by some script.
>
Just one little mistake I hadn't pointed out earlier; the
extensions.conf would probably really be extensions.ael ! Ignoring this,
the above is perfectly valid use of #include; just remember that the
include
would only happen when asterisk loads, reloads, or AEL is reloaded.
and, hehe, you can rotate the vmm hourly/daily to keep your users on
their toes!
>
> Regards,
> Philipp
>
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