What condition would you want to use to have the park terminate? Once you app is controlling the session, it would be up to you to enforce when it hangs up from the FS side. Based on what you describe the only issue could be when your remote application either misses the event or is restarted while calls are up so what I can suggest is this: in your C app, you could wait there for some timeout period just calling switch_ivr_sleep for 1 second up to 10 tries to wait a total of 10 seconds. If your app gets the event it can then transfer it to park using uuid_transfer, this would break the sleep loop and you could do something at the end of the loop like: if (switch_channel_ready(channel)) { switch_channel_hangup(channel, SWITCH_CAUSE_DESTINATION_OUT_OF_ORDER); } so when it was already hung or being transfered that could would not execute but if your loop ended from waiting too long and it was still active it would hangup. you could do something similar with just dp logic if you used park_timeout of 10 then in your event handler app, use uuid_setvar to unset park_timeout, then uuid_transfer it back to park now with now timeout uuid_transfer <uuid> set:park_timeout=,park inline You should come and present this at ClueCon if you have it done in time. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Zac Wolfe <zacw@safisystems.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
First some good news: we're finally close to releasing our free IVR Development platform SafiServer/SafiWorkshop (www.safisystems.com) with FreeSWITCH support! It's happening much later than we originally anticipated as we've been unexpectedly busy with contracting opportunities but I think it will be worth the wait. Currently everything is working fine with one minor exception: if the user-created script (we call them Saflets) doesn't explicitly hang up the call, the call will remain parked until the caller hangs up. Some details:
In Asterisk we invoke our server-side scripting applications via the extensions.conf using the following syntax:
exten = 1111,1,Agi(agi://192.168.0.10:3573/safletEngine.agi?saflet=project1/callflow1)
Here '192.168.0.10' is the IP address of the SafiServer and project1/callflow1 identifies the Saflet to be executed. Asterisk creates a socket connection to the SafiServer and, once the socket is disconnected, the call proceeds to the next entry in the dialplan (typically 'hangup').
For FreeSWITCH, the process is slightly different. Currently, rather than create a separate socket connection for each incoming call, we're invoking an event that informs the SafiServer that there is a new incoming call. The event contains the contextual information including the Saflet name. For example:
<extension name="9194"> <condition field="destination_number" expression="9194$"> <action inline="true" application="set" data="saficall=true"/> <action application="event" data="Event-Subclass=saficall::incoming,Event-Name=CUSTOM,saflet_project=test,saflet=flow1,new_saficall=true"/>
<!-- <action application="set" data="park_timeout=10"/> --> <action application="park" /> </condition> </extension>
So once the event is fired, the call is parked to prevent further execution within the dialplan. From there on, SafiServer is controlling the call via Inbound Mod event socket.
So this works perfectly, except that if the invoked Saflet doesn't explicitly hang-up the call it will remain parked until the caller hangs up. My question is, is there a better way to do this? Is there some better alternative to park in this case? Ideally I'd like to initiate a 'session' of some kind when the SafiServer is "controlling" the call and then exit that session as soon as the Saflet is complete, at which point the call would continue on to the next entry in the dialplan. I understand I could use Outbound sockets to achieve this but, as I mentioned, I'd like to avoid the overhead of a separate socket connection for each incoming call.
I actually have a mod_saficall.c app that does basically the the same thing as I described in the dialplan entry. Perhaps there's something more I could do in code that would allow me to be notified when the session is complete. Here's the relevant code I have so far:
switch_channel_t *channel = NULL; switch_event_t *event; const char *safiCallFlag = NULL; channel = switch_core_session_get_channel(session);
safiCallFlag = switch_channel_get_variable(channel, "saficall");
if (!safiCallFlag) switch_channel_set_variable(channel, "saficall", "true");
if (switch_event_create_subclass(&event, SWITCH_EVENT_CUSTOM, "saficall::incoming") == SWITCH_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
switch_event_add_header_string(event, SWITCH_STACK_BOTTOM, "new_saficall", safiCallFlag ? "false" : "true");
switch_channel_event_set_data(channel, event); switch_event_fire(&event); switch_ivr_park(session, NULL); }
Any ideas you might have on this are welcome.
Thanks, Zac Wolfe Safi Systems LLC www.safisystems.com
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