[Freeswitch-users] Current timestamp variable in dialplan?

[Gregor Nanger]

Anthony, would strftime [format_string] do the job?

On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 21:48, Piotr Gregor <piotr at dataandsignal.com> wrote:

> Antony,
>
> This sounds like a job for a module, especially that you mentioned you
> would like to upload/send it somewhere and combine it with data from other
> services.
> You create a module that exports one or more applications, you can call
> them from dialplan.
>
> best,
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> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 7:30 PM Antony Stone <
> Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 04 November 2022 at 19:13:27, Brian West wrote:
>>
>> > Antony,
>> >
>> > Maybe you can come to our next office hours?
>>
>> Er, what?  Where are you?
>>
>> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:05 PM Antony Stone wrote:
>> > > On Friday 04 November 2022 at 18:25:21, Brian West wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > 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 :)
>>
>>
>> Antony.
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