On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Richard Mudgett <rmudgett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Scott Griepentrog > <sgriepentrog@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi all- >> >> I'm working on the ability to set the uniqueid on channel creation via ami >> and ari, and I've run into a quandary: >> >> When Asterisk dials over chan_local, it creates a LOCAL/something;1 >> channel, and another LOCAL/something;2 channel to handle the other end of >> the call. If I'm specifying the uniqueid when I originate the call, I would >> presume it would be set to the ;1 channel, as that's the one I'm actually >> talking to. But should there be something identifiable (rather than the >> standard 012345678.123 uniqueid format) on the ;2 channel? For example, if >> I create the ;1 channel as 'MyCustomId', would it be useful to have the >> uniqueid of the ;2 channel be 'MyCustomId;2' ? >> >> Although it's probably not a good idea, it's not technically impossible to >> set the same 'MyCustomId' to both channels. Any other ideas on how best to >> handle this? > > > It is definitely not a good idea to have both the ;1 and ;2 channels to have > the same uniqueid. > They are different channels and if you look up a channel by uniqueid you > won't know which > local channel you will get. > > Pretty much the choices you have are: > 1) Give ;1 the requested id and let the ;2 generate its own id. > > 2) Give ;1 the requested id and give the ;2 the same id with an appended ;2 > or some other differentiator that lets the two channels be associated by a > similar id. > > 3) Give ;1 the requested id and give the ;2 an extra given id by the > requester. This option has the drawback of requiring the user to pass two > ids when creating a local channel. > I'd be very interested to hear more opinions on this one - but my inclination is either option (2) or option (3). Matt -- Matthew Jordan Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org _______________________________________________ asterisk-app-dev mailing list asterisk-app-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.digium.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-app-dev
