Steve Edwards wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Muro, Sam wrote: > >> I am having a problem understanding the way to retrieve some parameters >> to asterisk via AGI or what ever method that fits. I have an executable >> program that accept one parameter (CALLERID) and return customer status >> from the database server which can be printed in the console. >> >> #./retrive 0117473789 >> NAME: Franklin John >> STATUS: Active >> >> Can someone advice on how i can catch this values from AGI or directly >> on dialplan. > > AGI is a protocol used to interact with Asterisk. An AGI is a separate > process created by Asterisk when you execute "agi()" in the dialplan. > > From best to worst... > > 1) You could recode your retrieve application so it uses the AGI protocol. > Then, you could set channel variables to make these values accessible to > the rest of your dialplan. > > 2) You could cobble up an AGI to execute your retrieve application using a > "pipe" ("popen()" in c), parse the output and set channel variables. > > 3) You could cobble up something to execute your retrieve application, > redirecting the output to a file and then use the FILE function read the > text file and then parse the output using dialplan functions. > > -- > Thanks in advance, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST > Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 > > -- Thanks Steve Option one and two looks more ideal. Let stick on option one, the program is written in C++ (Actually is a corba interface). I have tried looking on how to write AGI script using C++ in vain. I am used to perl/php for scripting.. Can you post a snippet of c++ agi script.
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