[Freeswitch-users] Current timestamp variable in dialplan?

[Brian West]

Antony,

Maybe you can come to our next office hours?

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:05 PM Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it> wrote:

> On Friday 04 November 2022 at 18:25:21, Brian West wrote:
>
> > > I'm currently using cdr_odbc - do you see any problem in using both?
> >
> > No issue at all, cdr_odbc gives you a fraction of the info that xml_cdr
> > does.
>
> Okay, thanks.
>
> > > Also, just for a definitive answer, do I take it that there is no
> > > variable which the dialplan can reference in order to get the current
> > > timestamp?
> >
> > I'd not recommend doing that, because every time you do a get var, you
> > cause a pool allocation and doing this in a loop will make your session
> > pool swell at the rate of whatever you're calling get_var on.  Doing
> > anything at all inline with the dialplan is not the right approach.  your
> > logic and info should be all external, keying off events either on ESL or
> > custom modules you wrote.
>
> Hm, this sounds like an interesting and important conceptual aspect of the
> way
> FreeSwitch works which I suspect I haven't fully "got".
>
> Can you point me at the documentation which explains this, for people who
> are
> more used to procedural programming, and show how we should be thinking
> about
> FreeSwitch dialplans instead?
>
> I'm certainly keen on using FreeSwitch in as efficient a manner as
> possible :)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Antony.
>
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