8 May
2014
8 May
'14
10:45 a.m.
On 08 May 2014, at 09:21, jay binks <jaybinks(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great! Reading docs usually doesn't hurt people. A
few animals where killed in the process though ;-)
Then you want to use the process memory - $var.
Please do. During many years of
using Kamailio, I've been able to do almost everything I want to do with the existing
set of modules. Developing our own module put a lot of burden on the company - someone
will have to maintain it for as long as Kamailio is used.
We also have the lua, perl, python and java modules that you can use to extend our script
language even more.
It's not as
active as a few other projects. But it heats up from time to time. ;-)
can you
explain what the differences are when you say "avp stored in the transaction"
and process variables ?
do you literally mean variables in my module here, or are these some kind of structure
attached to the sip_msg ?
Read the docs on AVPs, shared variables (shv) process
variables (var). They are all stored in different memory and related to different things.
Thanks, Ill look into these. effectively what im looking to do is store some
custom data against sip_msg* that I can use later if I need to.
When is later? In
another request or in the response to the same request? If there's a stateful
transaction,
AVPs are reachable in response processing.
Sorry... by later, I mean, later while processing the same message.
Not later on in the call, in that case I know it must be persisted in a dialog.
my reason for doing a module is that I had a few
things I wanted to do in a module ( looking up large data structures for performance
reasons ), and im implementing a few other bits of business logic in this module.
Still doesn't explain why you need to code it in c and make it a modules. You can do a
lot in the existing
logic.
Fair call, I know I can do a lot in kamailio, its quite surprising actually what you can
do.
Ill re-evaluate my reasons for writing a module. im happy to discuss further if you want to gtalk
me ( on this email address )
I would suggest that you read up on the available docs
and then find us in the IRC channel where we try to be available and answer when it works
for us. If you really need fast help and responses, many of us are available as
consultants.
Ill try IRC again, but yea... there were not many people around last I was on there :)
I understand maybe time zones didnt work, or people were too busy.
In general, you have to be a bit more exact in your questions to get good answers on
-dev, a bit less on -users. Your original e-mail was a bit too inexact so it wasn't
easy to answer, which lead to everyone thinking that someone else may understand and may
answer... Before reposting to a mailing list, try to figure out why no one answered and
add information to make it easier to answer.
Fair enough, sorry for being vague.
Don't apologize, just learn from the
experience. Open Source is a different world and everyone has to learn how to interact
with the community to get answers and provide knowledge back.
/O