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

Normando Hall nhall at unixlan.com.ar
Sat Jul 19 20:30:45 MSD 2014


Yes you are right, removing these will cause a lot of problem for people 
that are already using them. I said the confussion they caused me.

Regards
Normando



El 19/07/2014 11:41 a.m., Ben Langfeld escribió:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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