[Freeswitch-users] Current timestamp variable in dialplan?

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 08 November 2022 at 23:55:18, Gregor Nanger wrote:

> Antony, would strftime [format_string] do the job?

Quite possibly, provided I can find a value of "now" to format with it.

> On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 21:48, Piotr Gregor 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,
> > 
> > 
> > Piotr Gregor
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 7:30 PM Antony Stone 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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