[Users] Re: [Devel] avpops updates

On Friday 10 February 2006 21:44, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote: These 2 seem to conflict with each other. They look exactly the same but claim to yield different results. The first is a direct access of the value of the alias, while the second is an indirect access of the value of the avp which's name is taken from $pvar. This is _very_ confusing. The problem comes from the fact that avp aliases and pseudo variables use the same notation but are handled so differently by $avp(). I think the best way to address this is to solve the issue at its source. What I have in mind is to use $something for pseudo variables like before but unify the avp and avp alias notation, since an avp alias is just another name for an existing avp. Thus we can have these: $avp(i:nnn) - integer avp $avp(s:some_name) - string avp with name 'some_name' $avp(some_name) - if some_name is defined as an avp alias, use the avp pointed by that alias, else lookup the string avp with the name 'some_name' In short, anything not having a i: or s: in front of it should be first looked up as an avp alias, but if that alias is not defined it should be considered as the name of the string avp. This will make avp aliases have priority over string aliases, but I think that's fine. And this is much more clear (both by eliminating the confusion with pseudo variables and by unifying aliases with avps notation wise). Backward compatibility is preserved, in the sense that if some_name is not defined as an alias it's still looked up as an string avp as it was before.