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(Updated March 13, 2014, 7 p.m.)


Review request for Asterisk Developers and rmudgett.


Changes
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Address Richard's feedback


Repository: Asterisk


Description
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ARI tests were occasionally showing a channel being stuck forever in Stasis. 
After looking at a live system where the problem was occurring, it became clear 
that the channel was stuck trying to wait for a playback to finish. However, it 
was also clear that the playback had been abandoned long ago.

When playing back a file to a channel that is in a bridge, the idea was to 
queue the playfile action onto the corresponding bridge channel, and then wait 
until the ARI custom playback function completed to signal that the playback 
had finished. There were several ways that this could fail:
* If the bridge channel were not found in the bridge, then we would never 
attempt to queue the playfile action, but we would still try to wait for it to 
finish happening.
* If queuing the playfile action did not succeed, then we would still attempt 
to wait for the action to occur.
* If the playback action was successfully queued, but the bridge channel were 
removed from the bridge before the playfile action could start, then the 
playback would never happen, and we'd wait forever.

The responsibility of knowing whether a playfile action has conpleted or ever 
will occur is the bridge's, since ARI can never fully know. With this in mind, 
I have created a new bridge channel API call to queue a playfile action 
synchronously. The way it is done, synchronous queuing operations could be 
created for other bridge actions quite easily. A new frametype, 
AST_FRAME_BRIDGE_ACTION_SYNC, contains a payload consisting of a 
synchronization ID and the actual payload of the bridge action that is to be 
queued. When the frame is queued, a synchronization structure is created and 
added to a linked list. The procedure then blocks until it is told that the 
frame has been disposed of.

When the frame gets freed (which will occur whether the playfile action 
succeeds or does not happen), the freer of the frame signals the waiting 
procedure that the playfile action has terminated, and control returns to 
whoever queued the playfile action in the first place.

>From ARI's perspective, this greatly simplifies its code. Most of the 
>res_stasis_playback changes are code removal. The bridge_channel changes, 
>though, are pretty large, which is why I've included Richard on this issue.


Diffs (updated)
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  /branches/12/res/res_stasis_playback.c 410467 
  /branches/12/main/frame.c 410467 
  /branches/12/main/channel.c 410467 
  /branches/12/main/bridge_channel.c 410467 
  /branches/12/include/asterisk/frame.h 410467 
  /branches/12/include/asterisk/bridge_channel.h 410467 
  /branches/12/funcs/func_frame_trace.c 410467 
  /branches/12/bridges/bridge_softmix.c 410467 

Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3338/diff/


Testing
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Initially, I did some manual playbacks using Swagger-UI to a channel in a 
bridge to ensure that the specified file was actually being played as promised. 
I also queued up several files in quick succession to ensure that they played 
in series and not on top of each other.

In addition, I have created an automated test that is up for review at /r/3339


Thanks,

Mark Michelson

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