<div dir="ltr">Hi Bote,<div><br></div><div>The difference is (supposed to be) that using Jester takes a lot of the dirty work out of doing things that you must turn to scripting for. The original design was to remove almost all scripting complexity, and instead have users use a more template-based approach to writing their advanced workflows. You can have a look at <a href="http://thehunmonkgroup.github.io/jester/doc/topics/03-Sequences.md.html#Writing_sequences">http://thehunmonkgroup.github.io/jester/doc/topics/03-Sequences.md.html#Writing_sequences</a> to see the basic template style.</div><div><br></div><div>And here's an example template that does some fairly advanced stuff:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://thehunmonkgroup.github.io/jester/doc/examples/phone_to_post_test.lua.html">http://thehunmonkgroup.github.io/jester/doc/examples/phone_to_post_test.lua.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>To my eyes, what the template accomplishes is quite easy to deduce from simply reading it, and all of the dirty work for taking those actions is handled by Jester core and the supporting modules.</div><div><br></div><div>The current limitation is that you must use the template structure to gain access to Jester's modules. Looking back, this was a design mistake that I intend to rectify -- it would be much more powerful and flexible to use a template when it made sense, and still be able to mix pure Lua scripting with calls to Jester's support modules when that makes more sense. And what I'm hoping to get help with is correcting that design flaw while preserving 'the good stuff' in the toolkit.</div><div><br></div><div>Chad</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Bote Man <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bote_radio@botecomm.com" target="_blank">bote_radio@botecomm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hey Chad, long time no chat </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> I saw your update to the Help section of the Confluence page concerning this and glanced at some things there. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I guess I don’t even know enough to understand the difference between using your toolkit and just plain writing a Lua script. Would I, for example, write an abbreviated Lua script that calls tested and proven functions in your toolkit, sort of like a library?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Anyway it sounds useful, so thanks.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">---<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bote<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">FreeSWITCH Docs Janitor<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://freeswitch.org/confluence" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://freeswitch.org/confluence</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><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""> Chad Phillips<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 22 January, 2016 14:41<br><b>Subject:</b> [Freeswitch-users] Seeking collaborators for FreeSWITCH/Lua scripting toolkit<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Looking for folks in the FreeSWITCH community who would be interested in collaborating on an open source scripting toolkit I've written for FreeSWITCH/Lua. The basic idea is to have ready made solutions to common scripting needs, so as not to reinvent the wheel.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The original project was written in 2010. A lot of it still works great, and there are some design flaws that I'd like to work out in the next release.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Project code is here: <a href="https://github.com/thehunmonkgroup/jester" target="_blank">https://github.com/thehunmonkgroup/jester</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Some background and reasoning for the project here: <a href="http://xylil.com/2016/01/20/jester-freeswitch-lua-and-my-quest-for-an-awesome-scripting-toolkit/" target="_blank">http://xylil.com/2016/01/20/jester-freeswitch-lua-and-my-quest-for-an-awesome-scripting-toolkit/</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If anyone is interested in helping, please let me know!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Chad<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_________________________________________________________________________<br>
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