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Review request for Asterisk Developers and Joshua Colp.


Repository: Asterisk


Description
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When testing out realtime for PJSIP, I encountered a problem. In my database, I 
had defined additional columns beyond the ones that Asterisk cared about. As a 
result, when data was pulled from the database, the config framework barfed, 
saying it didn't know what these object fields were. For config files, this 
practice is fantastic. It makes sure to raise a giant red flag to people that 
they are attempting to configure something that is not recognized by Asterisk. 
For realtime, on the other hand, it is legitimate for a database to contain 
supplemental data alongside the data Asterisk cares about.

What I have done is to modify res_sorcery_realtime.c to filter out fields from 
the retrieved objectset that have not been registered with sorcery. In 
addition, I have created two realtime sorcery unit tests. The first one simply 
creates data in a realtime backend and then has sorcery atttempt to retrieve 
the data, ensuring that an object is allocated with the expected data. The 
second test is similar, except that in addition to the data that has been 
registered with sorcery, an additional field is created in the realtime 
backend. This test ensures that the data can still be retrieved and 
successfully allocated by sorcery.

Of all things in this review, the thing I'm concerned about most is the log 
message that has been added to indicate that an object has been filtered out of 
the resultset retrieved from realtime. I initally wanted to make this a 
NOTICE-level message, but I was afraid that with the frequency with which 
objects are retrieved from realtime, this could spam the logs a little too 
much. On the other hand, leaving it as a level 1 debug message I have now could 
make it difficult for someone that has misconfigured their database (say they 
accidentally have a typo in a column name) from seeing that data they expect to 
be relevant is being ignored by Asterisk. Any suggestions on how to handle this?


Diffs
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  /branches/12/tests/test_sorcery_realtime.c 409886 
  /branches/12/res/res_sorcery_realtime.c 409886 
  /branches/12/main/sorcery.c 409886 
  /branches/12/include/asterisk/sorcery.h 409886 

Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3305/diff/


Testing
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All realtime sorcery unit tests pass with flying colors.


Thanks,

Mark Michelson

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