Real-time billing application for the FreeSWITCH (mod_lua, mod_perl or ESL)
Hello Everyone, I am a long time user of OpenSIPS and have recently been tasked with developing a call control/real-time billing application for the FreeSWITCH. I would like to develop the application in either C/C++, Perl or lua (totally new to lua) in this order. I have used ESL to develop some basic functionality of the application using Perl. For instance, when the call comes in, I pass over control from FreeSWITCH to the call control application using outbound TCP socket. Then the call control application listens for CHANNEL_ANSWER event to start billing process and CHANNEL_HANGUP event to stop billing. The application does some database work as well to retrieve and check user status and balance and all that stuff. My main concern is with load testing because of the TCP connection between the FreeSWITCH and call control application and also TCP connection to database to retrieve subscriber info. The basic functionality seems to work fine but haven't tested it with high call volume, which I am about to do. The last couple of days I have been experimenting with mod_lua but can't find a method under "Session" to get information related to CHANNEL_ANSWER and CHANNEL_HANGUP events. The "session:geVariable" does not have variables related to session answer time or hangup time, something similar to "$e->getHeader("Caller-Channel-Answered-Time")" in ESL. I must be missing something very simple here. Again, my experience with mod_lua is only a couple of days old. I am new Freeswitch and thought I would seek the advice of all the experts and people with more experience with Freeswitch. For this type of application, am I better off with mod_lua, or mod_perl, or shall I stick with ESL using Perl? How about ESL with C/C++? Will I gain some performance gain there? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. Sam
If your happy with C, go for it. You can take a look at mod_xml_cdr and mod_nibblebill for some hints on hooks for billing. I might use the state hooks for reporting instead and the data you get from that one as you are less time constrained to handle the data in that state. Mike On Aug 9, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Sami Montour <smontour@verizon.net> wrote:
Hello Everyone, I am a long time user of OpenSIPS and have recently been tasked with developing a call control/real-time billing application for the FreeSWITCH. I would like to develop the application in either C/C++, Perl or lua (totally new to lua) in this order.
I have used ESL to develop some basic functionality of the application using Perl. For instance, when the call comes in, I pass over control from FreeSWITCH to the call control application using outbound TCP socket. Then the call control application listens for CHANNEL_ANSWER event to start billing process and CHANNEL_HANGUP event to stop billing. The application does some database work as well to retrieve and check user status and balance and all that stuff. My main concern is with load testing because of the TCP connection between the FreeSWITCH and call control application and also TCP connection to database to retrieve subscriber info. The basic functionality seems to work fine but haven’t tested it with high call volume, which I am about to do.
The last couple of days I have been experimenting with mod_lua but can’t find a method under “Session” to get information related to CHANNEL_ANSWER and CHANNEL_HANGUP events. The “session:geVariable” does not have variables related to session answer time or hangup time, something similar to “$e->getHeader("Caller-Channel-Answered-Time")” in ESL. I must be missing something very simple here. Again, my experience with mod_lua is only a couple of days old.
I am new Freeswitch and thought I would seek the advice of all the experts and people with more experience with Freeswitch. For this type of application, am I better off with mod_lua, or mod_perl, or shall I stick with ESL using Perl? How about ESL with C/C++? Will I gain some performance gain there?
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
Sam
I actually working in it, I found it yesterday you need to add those lines (/autoload_configs/lua.conf.xml): <configuration name="lua.conf" description="LUA Configuration"> <settings> <hook event="CHANNEL_ANSWER" script="answer.lua"/> <hook event="CHANNEL_HANGUP_COMPLETE" script="hangup.lua"/> </settings> </configuration> Check this link to know what information is in each event, because it's important to handle the direction-call (Outbound, Inbound) https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Event_List -- View this message in context: http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/Real-time-billing-application-... Sent from the freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
There are many ways to do the billing. In my case, I use mod_nibblebill only to monitor to cut the call if they run out of credit and I interact with mod_xml_cdr to bill when the call has just finished. Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz CISSP, CISM, CISA Linux, VoIP and much more fun www.okay.com.mx Need LCR? Check out LCR for FusionPBX with FreeSWITCH Need Billing? Check out Billing for FusionPBX with FreeSWITCH 2015-03-04 17:17 GMT-05:00 jorgemariodlc <jorgemariodlc@gmail.com>:
I actually working in it, I found it yesterday you need to add those lines (/autoload_configs/lua.conf.xml):
<configuration name="lua.conf" description="LUA Configuration"> <settings>
<hook event="CHANNEL_ANSWER" script="answer.lua"/> <hook event="CHANNEL_HANGUP_COMPLETE" script="hangup.lua"/>
</settings> </configuration>
Check this link to know what information is in each event, because it's important to handle the direction-call (Outbound, Inbound) https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Event_List
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Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
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Sami Montour