24 Aug
2005
24 Aug
'05
1:26 p.m.
tks, I was just thinking with all these new features a simple one
paragraph of "how to use it" would help , because then users like me
could see how it may help/fit into their scenario
Iqbal
Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
Hi Iqbal,
you can use the branch route if you want to add/remove headers
independently, per branch. Imagine the following scenario:
you are doing parallel forking to a phone and to a GW; for the phone
you want to add header to set the ringing type, but this make no sense
to send also to GW; on the other hand you want to add to GW some
headers containing billing information, info that you do not want to
go also to the phone.
So, what you do in branch route? if uri points to GW, add the billing
(or whatever) header to the request; if points to an usrloc client,
add the ringing type header.
regards,
bogdan
Iqbal wrote:
So as a user, how would/could I use this
Iqbal
Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
.
Hi everybody,
I just finished adding support for BRANCH routes. The idea and frame
were partial ported from SER (thanks to Juha for extracting and
adapting patches). For those who are not familiar with this concept:
branch route is a route to be execute separately for each branch
before being sent out - changes in that route should reflect only on
that branch.
I say partial because the features, implementation were improved.
Shortly here is a list:
- remove from grammar default BRANCH ROUTE definition - since
this is a 100% TM route, make no sense
- RURI may be changed from a branch route (the routing will
accordingly change); This capability is essential, since there are
core function which alter the RURI, functions which cannot be
blocked in specific route types - not handling this, may easyly lead
to memory faults or leaks.
- flags per branch - if flags are changed in branch_route, the
change will not be visible for other branches, but it will be
visible for all replies of that branch (it might be useful for per
branch NAT traversal)
- full AVP support in branch route
- more efficient handling of lumps (changes in request) - instead
of cloning and removing the entire lump tree for each branch, using
lump flags, after each branch, the original lump tree will be just
cleaned only what was added during branch route will be removed).
still pending: how to handle append_branch() core function.....I
will prefer to handle properly all core functions, since their
execution cannot be banned from specific routes.
For the moment only textops, avpops and xlog modules were enabled
for branch route. Other will come in the future.
regards,
Bogdan
PS: testing done only superficial (is quite late now).....any
help/reports are welcomed :D
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