[Devel] item access is not consistent

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Juha Heinanen wrote:
> i started to wonder why i got into syslog an error
>
> May 14 18:05:07 tutpro /usr/sbin/sems_openser[8432]: xl_get_authattr: Error while parsing headers
>
> when i referred to $au in my script.
>
> since Proxy-Authorization header is by no means mandatory in every sip
> request, imo no error should be reported, but a null result should be
> returned instead.
>
> then i started to read item.c code and found that in some cases an error
> is reported when a non-existent item is referred to and -1 is returned.
> in some other cases, an error message is issued and a null value is
> returned, and in some cases a debug message is issued and a null value
> is returned.  there are even cases where an empty value is returned
> instead of a null value.
>
> handling of non-existent items needs to be consistent. i propose that
> when a non-existent sip message item is referred to, a debug message is
> issued and a null value is always returned.
>
> other proposals?  
>   
I second this!

regards,
bogdan