I tend to agree with Steven since just allowing other termination digits probaly wont solve your upcoming the issues anyway. I use a wrapper around the 'get digit' which allows me to specify that the * digit repeats the menu but maxium 3 times and if the * star digit is used twice in sequence (without other digits inbetween ) then it means 'go to the menulevel above current level'. This was todays 'noise' from me. Freddi
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Feedback request: AGI GET DATA change -
termination digits
From: Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:14:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]While that change is fine, you could also just write the same functionality with get digit and deal with it inside the AGI app.
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 16:50, Paul Crick wrote:
-- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>** REPOST: A week later and no feedback - am I the only one ** who'd find this functionality useful? No other AGI stuff ** out there needing something similar?
I'd like some feedback on potentially submitting a request (and probably a patch too) to change the way the AGI command GET DATA works.
Right now, # terminates the entry, which is then returned with the # stripped off the end. What I'd like is to allow user configurable termination digits, which are not stripped off the end.
Reasoning: Some entries you'd like to terminate with #. Right now it's fine, you can tell if # was pressed or not by looking for the lack of a (timeout) entry in the returned result. You may want to allow * to cancel an entry. This is not possible right now. Systems I've coded previously allow # to terminate and complete a digit entry, * to correct an incorrect entry (playing the prompt again and restarting digit collection). Pressing * with no prior digit entry cancels the step and returns to the previous menu.
I guess there's a compatibility issue with stuff that's out there already but if it was an optional 4th parameter this would be backwards compatible.
Proposed new syntax: GET DATA <filename> <timeout> <maxdigits> <terminator>
If terminator is specified (and it may be multicharacter, like "*#" to give me the functionality above), return the digit string collected so far, including the terminating digit. The calling app can strip the trailing character if needed.
Thoughts?
Cheers Paul
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