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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Why not use command line arguments and parse them in your lua script with argv[x] (where x is 0,1,2 …)?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>e.g.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> lua call_report.lua yesterday<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-- call_report.lua<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>print(“enter a number”)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>a = io.read(“*number”)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>if argv[1] == “yesterday” then<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> print(“Sorry we were closed, it was Sunday\n”)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>else<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> print(“calls today: \n” .. a * 12345) -- we like to show our boss that is was really busy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>end<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I suggest you start reading here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.lua.org/pil/1.html">http://www.lua.org/pil/1.html</a> (lua getting started ...)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Note: If you want users to interact with freeswitch I recommend doing that from outside fs and connect to fs with esl (and you could still use lua for that).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Grmt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom C<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 02 May, 2011 16:10<br><b>To:</b> FreeSWITCH Users Help<br><b>Subject:</b> [Freeswitch-users] Call particular function in Lua script from console?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi! Is there any way to pass parameters to a Lua script, or to call a particular function within a lua script, when calling it with the "lua" command from the console? (I can accomplish what I need using global_setvar, but that's an extra step for the user.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm looking for something more like this:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="mailto:freeswitch@internal">freeswitch@internal</a>> lua MyFunction("myContents") in MyLuaScriptFile.lua<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Alternatively, is there a way to get input from the console, or otherwise interact with the user? Such as:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> stream:write("Enter user name:")<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> cUserName = stream:readln() -- :-)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For anyone who is curious, the global_setvar method of passing info to a script can be done like this...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In the console, set the global variable(s), then call the script:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> freeswitch@internal> global_setvar myparameter=My Contents<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> freeswitch@internal> lua MyLuaScriptFile.lua<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(Note that there were no quotes around the string.) And in the script:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> fsapi = freeswitch.API();<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> myParameter = fsapi:execute("global_getvar", "myparameter")<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> if string.len(myParameter) == 0 then<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> -- Global variable does not exist or is empty!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> stream:write('ERROR: Please use "global_setvar myparameter=My Contents'"to specify user.\n')<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> return false<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> else<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> -- We retrieved contents of global. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> -- Might want to clean out the global to avoid later confusion.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> fsapi.:execute("global_setvar", "myparameter=")<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> end<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>