I know before I asked about blocking for an event, and maybe I should have created a new topic..

but now I want to actually sleep (rather than block) for a set time frame...this app will not be consuming events.

can I get an example of how to use msleep in a lua script? This lua script will be running in the background, and not part of a session or event consumer. Thanks.

--matt

2009/3/31 Michael Jerris <mike@jerris.com>
as replied earlier, if your doing nothing but consuming events, you can just block instead of sleep:

con:pop(1)

there is also a msleep function that you can call the same way you do console_log, it takes milli seconds as its arg.  Note this should NOT be used when you have a script running as a session, only when you are running an api script.

Mike

On Mar 31, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Matthew Fong wrote:

Got a few more questions about running LUA scripts, please forgive me, I'm an absolute newbie with LUA.

If I want to subscribe to a custom event, and I use

con = freeswitch.EventConsumer("CUSTOM my::event");

I get an error. Is this because I must subscribe to the CUSTOM (only) event, and then filter out the events using the Event-Subclass myself? Or am I missing something in the syntax of the subscribe?

Also, if I do not have a freeswitch.Session, what is the best way to have my LUA script sleep? I want a functionality, where a statement inside my LUA script gets iterated every 30 seconds. My program does not use a session, so I cannot use session:execute("sleep","1000"), as suggested in the wiki. I tried api::sleep(30000) and a few other combinations with execute but no luck :(. 

Thanks.
--matt

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
> con = freeswitch.EventConsumer("all");
>
> now you have a consumer obj
>
> every time you call con:pop() with no arg you will either get an event or
> nil when there are no events to consume.
> every time you call con:pop(1) the consumer object will block until there is
> an event.
>
> So you use the first way in conjunction with some other lock to do async or
> the 2nd way you do a dedicated blocking loop.

FYI, I added this information to the wiki page for freeswitch.EventConsumer.
-MC

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