On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Bartek Kania wrote: > There has been talk of replacing the dialplan with something good and > beautiful. > I think benjk has some examples online (but I forgot where).
it's at http://www.sunrise-tel.com/asterisk-plist-support.html and you need to scroll down a little to where it says "The Asterisk Dialplan" HOWEVER ... keep in mind that this is not a dialplan language but a meta language. That is to say, the meta dialplan is only for two things ... 1) define named patterns for pattern matching 2) define which pattern(s) will trigger which dialplan script(s) the dialplan scripts itself would have to be in some suitable dialplan language. The meta language does not concern itself with anymore than match and dispatch. Under this model, dialplan scripts can be in different languages using different plug-ins and they can be either embedded or stored externally in flat files or in a database. A default dialplan engine and storage method can be defined, so that if nothing is specified, all dialplan scripts would be in the default language and storage method, for example ... default = { engine = "asterisk_1.0"; storage = "inline"; }; ... would provide legacy support for every context in which no engine and no storage is specified, mimicking the same dialplan behaviour that we have now. Under this model it would be possible to write an AEL2 plugin and then specify that as an engine for some or all contexts, however, as I said before, I think we should first look elsewhere before considering development an AEL2 plug-in. As Daniel said, it would seem an unwise use of our resources to do so, at least for the time being. I personally have hopes for the IO language to be a suitable dialplan language either as it is or as a base that can be mended into a suitable dialplan language. In particular, it promises to take care of all the performance issues various people have raised with the current dialplan engine and alternatives. for further reading, the IO website is at http://www.iolanguage.com regards benjk ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Openpbx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev
