[Freeswitch-users] Ast/FS Rosetta Stone

Sat May 31 20:18:20 PDT 2008

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Michael S Collins
<mercutio.viz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to confirm: you can run both dialplans simultaneously, no?  I'm
> thinking that it might be helpful to have a few sample extensions in each dp
> type that are functionally identical. I'll see if I can come up with some
> practical examples.

I could do some tests and write them on the wiki page. I've used
asterisk's dialplan in many ways, so hopefully I can document most
used cases. I can come up with some results within the next two days.

After that, if anyone has some issue related to that, I'll be willing
to fulfill it the freeswitch way.

> -MC
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> On May 31, 2008, at 8:55 AM, "Anthony Minessale"
> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Another good transition tool to play with may be mod_dialplan_asterisk which
> is in tree.
>
> Once loaded in modules.conf.xml it can be used in your sofia profile by
> adding "asterisk" as the dialplan parameter.
> You can also transfer calls to it by specifying it as the dialplan param in
> the transfer or execute_extension apps.
>
> it's not entirely like the real asterisk dialplan but it is at least a close
> familiarity.
> You cannot include contexts in each other in ours because we do all our
> dialplan logic before the call.
>
> It's structured in the same way so you can create context default
>
> [default]
> ; and you can use comments the same way
> ; here is a demo that is close to the extensions.conf in tree that installs
> by default
>
> ------------------
> [default]
>
> ; Things you're used to....
> exten => music,n,Dial(SIP/1234 at conference.freeswitch.org|120)
>
> ; similar pattern matching and caller-id match.
> exten => _1XXXXX,n,set(cool=${EXTEN})
> exten => _1XXXXX,n,set(myvar=true)
> exten => _1XXXXX,n,Goto(default|music)
> exten => 2137991400/1000,n,Goto(default|music)
>
> ; we also embellished things a bit and added some of our own goodies
> ; Some new magic you can do.... if you start the exten string with a ~ it
> implies PCRE regex
> ; *NOTE* the ,n, is there for familiarity purposes we do not parse it anyway
> nor will we honor line numbers.
>
> exten => ~^(18(0{2}|8{2}|7{2}|6{2})\d{7})$,n,enum($1)
> exten => ~^(18(0{2}|8{2}|7{2}|6{2})\d{7})$,n,bridge(${enum_auto_route})
>
> ; instead of exten, put anyting about the call you would rather match on.
> ; either the names of a field in caller_profile or a string of variables to
> expand.
> caller_id_number => 2137991400,n,Goto(default|music)
> ${sip_from_user} => bill,n,Goto(default|music)
>
>
> Anyway you will find the XML dialplan more flexible but this may serve as a
> stepping stone for beginners.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Michael Collins <mcollins at fcnetwork.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> FYI,
>>
>>
>>
>> I create a new wiki page:
>>
>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Rosetta_stone
>>
>>
>>
>> I thought maybe those who know about Asterisk and FreeSWITCH both could
>> start dropping stuff in there.  I think that people coming from Asterisk
>> might have an easier time if they had some sort of frame of reference.  Note
>> that I put a disclaimer at the top – there isn't really a one-to-one
>> Ast-to-FS translation for most of the stuff, but if you said to an
>> experienced Asterisk user that "conf/dialplan/default.xml" is analogous to
>> "/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf" then he/she would at least have a starting
>> point.  I'm hoping to add more stuff like the fact that there aren't really
>> "priorities" in FS but that you can use scripting langs, ivr menus, etc. to
>> mimic a lot of that kind of functionality.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, your thoughts and suggestions are welcomed.  I will do my best to
>> add stuff as I am able…
>>
>>
>>
>> -MC
>>
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