Hello!

Two questions about suspended transactions:

1) What is the lifetime of a suspended INVITE transaction? Can I change it?

2) While a transaction is suspended, its event hooks (e.g. onreply_route, failure_route) do not run, of course, even if replies that match the transaction are received. Is there a way to intercept these replies externally and resume the transaction upon the receipt of the reply, and prior to the processing of the reply?

For example, can the replies be captured in a stateless route, and mapped Call-ID => index/label to t_continue() the transaction, then have the transaction state machine process that very same reply too?

t_is_retr_async_reply() seems to hint at this intention, but its scope is more narrow, if I understood the documentation correctly: it seems to deal with retransmissions only. The code path I'm interested in is more akin to a t_is_reply_to_async() function.

As you might guess, the driver for this inquiry is a mobile workflow where, in the vast majority of cases, one is contacting a stale registration and should just suspend the transaction, but where occasionally, in a small minority of cases, the endpoint does respond on the existing contact. The standard tsilo workflow of trickling parallel branches into a pending transaction doesn't work here because of the behaviour of Apple's CallKit; we have to try the existing contact _before_ we send a push notification.

-- Alex