I made it an error now to do it this way which should clear things up.
Doing it that way probably led to instability in js.


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Alexandru Nedelcu <alex@sinapticode.ro> wrote:
I wrote that document ... I can't remember from where I got the idea
that you should specify the a-leg as being the same session.

That document is a draft, but it got indexed by Google unfortunately :(


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:12 +0000, Nik Middleton wrote:
> I think this page (external) is the source
>
>
>
> http://alexn.org/docs/dialer.html
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org
> [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of
> Anthony Minessale
> Sent: 13 February 2009 14:06
> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Setting outbound callerid using js
>
>
>
>
> 1) session.originate is depricated.
> 2) the first arg to session.originate is *another* session (not the
> same one) *or* undefined.....
>     session.originate(undefined, "<dial string>");
>     session.originate(a_leg_session, "<dial string>");
>
> session.originate(session, "<dial string>") is asking the session to
> use itself as it's own a leg which makes no sense.
>
> This is perhaps the 4th time i have seen someone do this, can you
> point out where this is incorrectly documented?
>
> BTW
>
> effective_caller_id_name/number are variables you set on the A leg so
> when it's used to generate b legs that var is copied instead.
>
> a_leg_session.setVariable("effective_caller_id_number=1234");
> b_leg_session = new Session(a_leg_session, "<dial string>");
>
> which is of course pointless because you never need to create the
> session if you just use the bridge application.
>
>
> session.execute("bridge", "<dial string>");
>
> even better just set the dest to a var and exit the script and use
> that var in your dialplan.
>
>
> --- contents of get_dest.js ---
> session.setVariable("dial_string", "<dial string>");
>
> -- dialplan --
> <action application="javascript" data="get_dest.js"/>
> <action application="bridge" data="${dial_string}/>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>
> wrote:
>
> session.originate(session,'{accountcode=54321,ignore_early_media=true,origination_caller_id_number=07630600000,originate_timeout=25}sofia/gateway/mygw/01XXXXXXXXXXX');
> >
> >
> >
> > (this works using lua BTW)
> >
>
>
> hmmmm... how about using "effective_caller_id_number" instead? I think
> the JavaScript paradigm is a bit different than the Lua/Perl one. Let
> us know if that works or not.
> -MC
>
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