[Freeswitch-users] Global Variable Substitution

Brian Wiese brian.wiese.freeswitch at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 00:19:03 MSK 2012


Michael:

Here's what I came up with, and it works really well!  I can embed
this in a dialplan or use it at the CLI:

lua ~stream:write(tostring(string.gsub("string_to_search",
"string_to_find", "replacement_string")))

It's awesome!

Thanks for your help!

~Brian

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Brian Wiese
<brian.wiese.freeswitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael:
>
> I do think that mod_xml_curl is a little more than what I need here.
> I'll try a Lua script and see where I get.  I'll try to call a Lua
> script and return the bridge string back to the dial plan.
>
> I'll let you know how my scripting fu works...
>
> ~Brian
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>> This kinda sounds like a problem in need of mod_xml_curl. If that seems like
>> too much of a hassle then I would fall back to a mod_lua or mod_perl script
>> to do the regex stuff. How is your scripting fu?
>>
>> -MC
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Brian Wiese
>> <brian.wiese.freeswitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael:
>>>
>>> I sure can!
>>>
>>> What I want to do is create template configurations that I can deploy
>>> to multiple servers.  Part of the requirement of incoming calls is to
>>> configure which extension(s) ring immediately, 6-second delay, and
>>> 12-second delay.  I have created groups for these extensions, and by
>>> using group_call I can get the full dial string for each group...
>>> perfect!  Now, I just need a way to delay some of these extensions by
>>> 6 or 12 seconds.  I ultimately want to inject leg variables into the
>>> dial string for each extension, so when the group_call is expanded
>>> each of them expand with the extra leg variable I define.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps...  clear as mud?  :)
>>>
>>> ~Brian
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Can you expand upon this question a bit? I'm curious if there's a less
>>> > hackish way of doing what you want to do. Under what circumstances do
>>> > you
>>> > need to add the leg variables? Also, can you give us the big picture?
>>> > What's
>>> > the problem you're solving?
>>> >
>>> > -MC
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Brian Wiese
>>> > <brian.wiese.freeswitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Everyone.
>>> >>
>>> >> I thought I read somewhere that this was possible, but I can't find it
>>> >> now...
>>> >>
>>> >> I need a way to find-and-replace within a variable.  So, for example,
>>> >> I want to take variables that have values like this:
>>> >>
>>> >> 123abc123abc
>>> >> abc123abc123abc
>>> >>
>>> >> ...and do a find/replace of the "abc" with "xyz" so the variables
>>> >> would now return:
>>> >>
>>> >> 123xyz123xyz
>>> >> xyz123xyz123xyz
>>> >>
>>> >> The use case I've run into is that I need to add leg variables to
>>> >> group_call.  In my case, group_call can return any number of members,
>>> >> so I figured I would just replace the first "[" with
>>> >> "[variable-I-want-to-set=...".
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks for the help!
>>> >>
>>> >> ~Brian
>>> >>
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