[Freeswitch-users] Using outbound Event Sockets versus using embed language scripts

[Michael Collins]

Using PAGD is the controlled way of collecting digits from the caller. You
could rely on the events from the event socket PAGD does a lot of the dirty
work for you, like handling invalid input, etc.

-MC

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Herman Griffin <herman.griffin at gmail.com>wrote:

> I notice that there are DTMF events that come over the event socket. Is it
> best practice to use the play_and_get_digits dialplan app to collect digits
> or is collecting the digits using the DTMF events a better way?
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Anthony Minessale <
> anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> my $e;
>> my $foobar;
>>
>> $e = $con->api("uuid_getvar", "$uuid foobar");
>>
>> if ($e) {
>>    $foobar = $e->getBody();
>> }
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Herman Griffin
>> <herman.griffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Unless I'm complicating things, it seems like a drop to write outbound
>> event
>> > sockets apps versus writing embedded language apps. However, I'm
>> interested
>> > in writing event sockets apps because I can see an advantage in being
>> able
>> > to load balance the app by running you app behind a load balancer. One
>> > simple thing that I am trying to accomplish is collecting digits and
>> doing
>> > something useful with string of digits that have been collected.
>> >
>> > My first attempt at this is to use the play_and_get_digits dptool, but I
>> > don't now how to pull data from stored variable so that I can use in the
>> > script. I slightly modified the freeswitch.git/libs/esl/perl/server2.pl
>> > script by adding this line:
>> >
>> > $con->execute('play_and_get_digits', '2 5 3 7000 #
>> > ${base_dir}/sounds/en/us/callie/conference/8000/conf-pin.wav
>> /invalid.wav
>> > foobar \d+' );
>> >
>> > The next thing that I'd like to do is grab the value in foobar is use it
>> in
>> > the perl logic.
>> >
>> > Can someone lead me to the next step?
>> > Does anyone with experience with event socket apps and embedded language
>> > apps have some useful information about their preferred path?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Herman
>>
>
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