[Freeswitch-users] How to provide dynamic directory information?

[Mike van Lammeren]

Hi Michael!

I've had a look at your blog. Good stuff!

Thanks!

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Mike van Lammeren <mike at van.lammeren.net>wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'd like to be able to have FreeSWITCH check a database for authorization,
>> every time a user registers. There are some great examples on the wiki,
>> which use either MOD_XML_CURL or Lua to dynamically provide a dialplan, but
>> I cannot find an example for providing a directory.
>>
>> I am developing an application that will have thousands of users, and will
>> run on multiple FreeSWITCH servers behind a load balancer. Ideally,
>> FreeSWITCH would only look-up directory information, specifically, username
>> and password, whenever a user attempts to connect. The directory information
>> will be changing regularly, as users are added or removed from the system.
>>
>> Is this possible with FreeSWITCH? Or can only dialplan information be
>> provided dynamically?
>>
>> I've written a script in Lua that provides the XML data, such as that
>> found in the example /freeswitch/conf/directory/default/ folders, and I try
>> to call it with this bit of XML in /freeswitch/conf/directory/default.xml:
>>
>> <groups>
>> <group name="default">
>> <users>
>>  <param name="xml-handler-script" value="/directory.lua"/>
>> <param name="xml-handler-bindings" value="users"/>
>>  </users>
>> </groups>
>>
>> Is this the right approach? Am I going about this the right way?
>>
>
> You can bind "directory" as well as "dialplan" and a few others. I
> personally don't use xml_curl in production but for kicks I tried to learn
> it and I documented some of my journey on my personal blog. (
> http://telecommusings.blogspot.com/)
>
> xml_curl was designed to scale and be applied in your type of scenario.
> Raymond (intralanman on IRC) has played with it quite a bit as have a number
> of others.
> -MC
>
>
>
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