[Freeswitch-users] Current timestamp variable in dialplan?

[Brian West]

The way the dial plan is compiled and executed will vary depending on a lot
of factors, what purpose are you using this for? because it's a metric that
will show little to no variance, your best bet is to turn on xml_cdr and
use that it has all the info and history of what and when things took
place.  Don't burden the dialplan with these sorts of tasks as freeswitch
wasn't designed to be used like that.

/b


On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 2:03 PM Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it> wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 November 2022 at 18:25:52, Brian West wrote:
>
> > What problem are you trying to solve?  I still can't clearly
> > understand what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> Oh, I didn't realise you wanted to know what I planned to *do* with the
> information - I thought you were just trying to understand exactly what
> information I need.
>
> So, to answer your question about why I need these timestamps, I have
> specific
> points throughout the dialplan where I need to know the current (accurate)
> timestamp, in order to collect statistics on the efficiency of different
> parts of
> the dialplan (basically, how long does *this* section take to complete,
> how
> long does *that* section take, etc).
>
> These timing values are then combined with similar timestamps from other
> parts
> of the system (which includes Asterisk, database lookups, and other
> external
> services) to give an overall measure of the performance of individual
> parts of
> the whole thing.
>
> Ultimately I do not intend to collect this quantity of data from
> production
> systems, but on development and test systems I need to be able to spot
> quickly
> when some part of what FreeSwitch is doing, or anything else we are
> collecting
> these timestamps from, changes (for better or for worse) in how long the
> processing takes.
>
> Does that answer your question sufficiently to be able to guide to me
> where I
> can find the current timestamp inside the dialplan?
>
> I didn't realise that this could be a complicated question, but perhaps
> the
> fact that I didn't find the answer easily indicates that it is?
>
> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 12:12 PM Antony Stone wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 02 November 2022 at 17:18:26, Brian West wrote:
> > > > Ok let's step back, what do you mean by this?
> > >
> > > I mean that I wish either to assign the current timestamp to a variable
> > > in the format 2022-11-02 12:34:56.789789, or to find a system variable
> > > which will provide this when I reference something like ${now}.
> > >
> > > I hope that's clear?
> > >
> > > As a workaround until I find out how to do this the correct way, the
> > > following command does what I want, however I suspect it's not very
> > > efficient:
> > >
> > > <action
> > >         application="set"
> > >         data="now=${regex(${system date '+%F %T.%N'}|(.+)|%1)}"
> > > />
> > >
> > > I got the somewhat complicated syntax of that command from
> > >
> https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_dptools:+system
> > >
> > >
> > > Antony.
>
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