[Freeswitch-users] macros for performing repeated dialplan actions?

[Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines]

On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Simon J Mudd wrote:

> OK. That looks clear. However it doesn't look as if it's possible to
> pass parameters this way which means that data can only be passed to
> the "extension" via variables. That works but isn't so clean. I'll
> check this out further shortly. I'm planning later to pass info like
> "which gateway to talk to" and perhaps some sort of flag which
> indicates "record: yes/no", and even include the bridge application
> into this extension/macro.  That reduces the original dialplan pattern
> matching to a much simpler and easier to configure setup for me.

here's a tip from a recovering asterisk user: don't feel like you have  
to do everything via the dialplan.  this was a constant mantra in  
asterisk, because calling AGI scripts was expensive.  this is not the  
case with FreeSWITCH.  the general rule of thumb is: as soon as it  
gets hard to do in the dialplan, farm it out to a script.  it's the  
way FreeSWITCH is designed, so don't fight it  ;)

that said, you still might be able to use execute_extension along with  
setting some channel variables before you call it.  those channel  
variables will be available in the executed extension, and can act  
pretty much like the arguments to a macro.