[Freeswitch-users] Limit is not working when originate a call

[Eli Hayun]

Anthony Minessale wrote:
> limit is for inbound calls
> you cannot call it after you already made the call.
> The correct approach would be to not make the call at all.
>
> you could maybe use the limit FSAPI interface with apiExecute to check
> if the limit was exceeded and
> then not bother to place the call to begin with.
>
> otherwise it's sort of like putting a prisoner in the electric chair
> then giving him his trial.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Eli Hayun <elihayun at gmail.com
> <mailto:elihayun at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Michael Jerris wrote:
>     > because your not running limit at all when you are doing an
>     originate
>     > directly.  You can use loopback to originate through a dialplan
>     > extension.
>     >
>     > Mike
>     >
>     > On Jul 22, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Eli Hayun wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> Hi
>     >> I set the limit to 1 on the extension like that
>     >>
>     >> <action application="limit_hash" data="${destination_number}
>     >> ${destination_number} 1" />
>     >>
>     >> When I am trying to make a call the that destination i
>     transfered to
>     >> limit_exceeded dialplan, just like I want
>     >>
>     >> The problem is, that when I am trying to make a call using
>     >> "originate" I
>     >> am not getting the limitation.
>     >> Why is that?
>     >>
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>     Thanks for answer.
>     I am calling "Originate" from JS. I tried to call "limit_hash" from JS
>     but with no success. I did it like that:
>
>     lmt = apiExecute("limit_hash", dialed_ext + " " + dialed_ext + " 1");
>
>     I could't find any documentation on that.
>     can u help ?
>
>     Thanks
>     Eli
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Thanks for replay, but how do I do that?
I tried to use :
   lmt = apiExecute("limit_hash", extno + " " + extno + " 1");
    console_log("info","*** Limit ***" + lmt + "\n");
But it gave me "Invalid command". What is the exact way to do that. The
documentation on that, is missing.