Tilghman Lesher wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 13:22:25 Rob Hillis wrote: > >> Wesley Haut wrote: >> >>> Yell at me if you will, but I hate func_realtime - it's not very >>> usable nor is it change-friendly (update your database and your >>> dialplan completely breaks). >>> >> I agree completely. As it stands, the REALTIME() function is nearly >> completely useless. If Asterisk had better string manipulation >> functionality, it would be /marginally/ better, though still not much good. >> >> A far better approach would be to allow you to specify the specific >> field you want to retrieve - the same way that you do for a write. >> /That/ would make the function many times more useful than it currently is. >> > > What if I made it work with the HASH() dialplan function, similar to how > func_odbc works? Keys are column names, values are the associated field > value. > > +1 to that Tilghman. HASH() wasn't there at the time that we originally put func_realtime together, but it would certainly make it more usable.
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