[Freeswitch-users] Implications of [inbound|outbound]-use-callid-as-uuid in sofia.xml

Kim Rostgaard Christensen krc at retrospekt.dk
Thu Aug 29 13:01:50 MSD 2013


Thank you for your answers. I'll try to see whether it is worth to
maintain a transition table for traceability instead of using the
option then.

Best
Kim

On 2013-08-28 21:50, Steven Ayre wrote:
> Another thing is storage... if your DB structure is assuming UUIDs
> are of the normal length, then longer Call-IDs are going to cause
> you truncation problems.
> 
> 
> On 28 August 2013 20:14, Anthony Minessale
> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com <mailto:anthony.minessale at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
> Correct, you are at the mercy of the call-id being unique and 
> uniqueness cannot be guaranteed. Many sip endpoints at least try
> pretty hard to make sure they are unique but there is really
> nothing to enforce it.
> 
> Alternatively, you do have the sip_call_id variable present so its 
> not that hard to correlate them.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Ben Langfeld <ben at langfeld.co.uk 
> <mailto:ben at langfeld.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
> I would imagine the issue is that an incoming INVITE CallID might
> not strictly be unique. I'm not sure if "use-callid-as-uuid" deals
> with this at all...
> 
> 
> On 28 August 2013 06:51, Kim Rostgaard Christensen 
> <krc at retrospekt.dk <mailto:krc at retrospekt.dk>> wrote:
> 
> Hi list
> 
> First post, so I would just like to give a big hat tip to the
> people involved - extremely nice project. Well documented, nice 
> community We recently moved from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH, and have
> not looked back since. Asterisk is a very nice project, but AMI is
> less suited our needs than ESL.
> 
> Today, while mucking about with PJSUA, I discovered the call_id to
> be (entirely) different from the uuid assigned to the channel in
> FS. While this appears to remedied by the *-use-callid-as-uuid 
> options in sofia.xml I still wonder if there are any potential 
> complications/slowdown associated with using the option?
> 
> Best


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