[Freeswitch-users] Which scripting language to use?

[Avi Marcus]

First take a look at:
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Rosetta_stone

There's MANY ways to tell freeswitch what to do.

Let's take a step back, OK?

The simplest is to create a dialplan. With all the condition, regex, time
based routing, etc, you can do quite a lot in just a static dialplan.
Depending on what you need to do, you may never need to go beyond this. You
can even do database calls from the static dialplan with mod_odbc_query
(from git freeswitch-contrib).

If you need a bit more flexiblity, you can call a lua script at any point.
Lua seems to be the most embeddable language with very low overhead and
high community support.

If you need more, you can use XML_curl -- that's from a web server in any
language -- that serves up XML specific for each call -- it gets all the
variables about the call at that time. (You have to ensure your web server
is working!)

Alternatively, there's ESL - freeswitch fires off events for many things
you can watch and trigger something. Or, ESL outbound.
If you know C, you can write this logic in a module that is loaded directly
with freeswitch.

You can look up all those in the wiki, but I hope this helps explain the
bigger picture.

-Avi Marcus
BestFone

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:35 AM, ashish gautam <gautamashish09 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to FS and was previously using Asterisk for developing
> telephony apps using PHP-AGI.
>
> I want to know which scripting language will be best to use with
> freeSWITCH? I have come across languages like Javascript,Python,LUA etc.
> and I am confused at this time about which one works best with it.
>
> Kindly help.
>
> --
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