Agreed. I tend to be using Lua wherever I can these days.
If I were doing it again from scratch, that's what I'd use.
Dialplan still the king for managing multithreads (and it seems to do this by magic as far as I can tell) but Lua is so much more readable for an old dinosaur like me.

On 31/07/2015 18:32, Mario wrote:
I like LUA for this. I have a LUA that builds long sentences that even include music in different places. The LUA builds the sound string from multiple files dynamically and even adjusts the length of various sections (like music) so the message is a fairly consistent length even though the parts are different. Yes, LUA is more work up front but then you can do much more and use the logic for multiple sound purposes.
Mario
On Jul 31, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Alex Lake <alex@digitalmail.com> wrote:

It's because the whole dialplan is templated and I wanted to have one piece of data that could neatly go in.
Lua would have been a possibility, I guess, but I quite like the phrase macro system.

On 29/07/2015 18:16, Michael Jerris wrote:
Or even dialplan. When would this actually add any value over maybe just calling playback multiple times in a row?

On Jul 29, 2015, at 1:02 PM, Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin@gmail.com> wrote:

Why not just using Lua instead?

On Jul 29, 2015 3:08 PM, "Alex Lake" <alex@digitalmail.com> wrote:
OK - Got this working. Just in case anyone is interested:

     <macro name="xplayN">
         <input pattern="^([^,]*),([^,]*),(.*)$">
             <match>
                 <action function="play-file" data="$1/$2.wav"/>
                 <action function="play-file" data="phrase:xplayN:$1,$3"/>
             </match>
         </input>
         <input pattern="^([^,]*),([^,]*)$">
             <match>
                 <action function="play-file" data="$1/$2.wav"/>
             </match>
         </input>
     </macro>

Example of use:

       <action application="playback"
data="phrase:xplayN:/home/pabx/004-3774/x,001,0211,0221,0231"/>



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