[Freeswitch-users] Originating a call from lua with rudimentary error checking

[Anthony Minessale]

I think this is an oversight
update to trunk and session.ready() should work as expected.


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John Wehle <john at feith.com> wrote:

> >> What's the recommended way to check if the session constructor was
> >> successful (i.e. the number could be dialed)?
>
> > check that s is nil.
>
> Doesn't work ... s is never nil.  Type shows it as userdata
> even if Session failed.  Specifically my test was:
>
>  local s = freeswitch.Session (
>              "{ignore_early_media=true,origination_caller_id_name=" ..
>               caller .. "}loopback/" .. destination .. "/default/XML")
>
>  stream:write (type(s))
>
>  if s == nil then
>    stream:write ("-ERR call failed\n")
>    return
>  end
>
> and I dialed an unreachable number.
>
> > and that s.ready() is true
>
> Checking s.ready() results in:
>
>  [ERR] freeswitch_lua.cpp:102 session is not initalized
>
> if Session failed.
>
> What I'm looking for is a way to try to originate a call which doesn't
> throw ERR messages if the attempt fails.
>
> Explicitly calling session.originate seems to allow you to check if
> the call was successful ... is there a particular reason it's discouraged?
>
> I'm happy to avoid it if a better approach is available, however I'm
> having trouble finding one.
>
> -- John
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