[Freeswitch-users] api - bgapi from ESL are redundant and confuse

[Ben Langfeld]

This pattern of abstraction is very common, useful for keeping consumer
code clean, is not generally confusing (sorry that you thought it was, but
to many people it would be obvious) and absolutely should not be removed
for the reason stated.


On 19 July 2014 08:54, Peter Olsson <peter at olssononline.se> wrote:

> I don't fully understand the confusion here. api/bgapi are just there to
> simplify how to send commands (since they are the mosy commonly used I
> guess).
>
> I'm pretty sure it would cause huge problems for everyone using ESL today,
> if we'd just remove those functions.
>
> /Peter
>
>
> 2014-07-19 0:18 GMT+02:00 Normando Hall <nhall at unixlan.com.ar>:
>
>>  Hi guys
>>
>> After 2 days I understand some issues with ESL and the NodeJS ESL wrapper
>> (modesl).
>>
>> Learning to use event socket I read that has commands like: api - bgapi -
>> linger, nolinger etc.
>> Then, when reading the ESL wrapper for NodeJS I can't found those sockets
>> commands. Only found api and bgapi, but not linger, nolinger, etc. So, the
>> wrapper has the same methods as ESL has. But why I can't found those linger
>> and nolinger methods? Here is the answer from the ESL wiki:
>>
>> *api($command, $args) is identical to sendRecv("api $command $args")*
>>
>> and
>>
>> *bgapi($command, $args) is identical to sendRecv("bgapi $command $args")*
>>
>> So... I can figured that "linger" or other commands should send into the
>> "send" or "sendRecv" methods. This cause me a confussion.
>>
>> So, all ESL commands must be send through "send" or "sendRecv" methods,
>> and "api" or "bgapi" are shorthands of "send" method for api/bgapi.
>>
>> I think these methods (api-bgapi) should be remove from ESL, to avoid
>> future confussion.
>>
>> Regards
>> Normando
>>
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