22 Sep
2005
22 Sep
'05
10:13 a.m.
You could look at the Getting Started document on www.onsip.org
because we use the AVPOPS module in several examples and we give a
much deeper description of what the functions do.
However, we only use a subset of the AVPOPS library.
Regards,
Paul
On 9/22/05, sip <sip(a)arcdiv.com> wrote:
Yeah... the problem with this documentation is that it
was clearly written by
someone who doesn't WRITE documentation as a matter of course, but needed
something to be out there just to say there's documentation.
It's a little like a developer writing docs for his own code or API. VERY
understandable to the developer himself, but not so crystal to anyone else.
This is one of the primary reasons I never let my developers write their own
API docs. They get with a tech writer, and the tech writer asks questions
about what the API does, and then writes documentation in such a way that
monkeys (such as myself) can understand.
I was looking for something a little more... lucid.
If it doesn't exist, cool. I'll keep muddling away and perhaps I'll hit that
eureka point of understanding somewhere, but I was hoping.
N.
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:31 -0400, Paul Hazlett wrote
The offical documentation for AVPOPS (for
SER-0.9.x) can be found here:
http://www.voice-system.ro/docs/avpops/0.9.0/
Regards,
Paul
On 9/22/05, sip <sip(a)arcdiv.com> wrote:
> Is there any good, DETAILED information on AVPops usage that, say, doesn't
> read like a developers API reference page? Currently, I'm cleaning up portions
> of my ser.cfg which have horrid, ugly hacks in them that I put in to handle
> this case or that case...
>
> For instance, I use the calls_forwarding table to handle call blocking and
> call forwarding info (since it seems a little more reasonable than
> usr_preferences as it simply has more relevant tables). For call blocking, I
> can say give a purpose of 'blocking' and an action of relay or reply...
with
> parameters set to what kind of reply or where to relay (voicemail server?
> Alternate server? etc). For forwarding, I can give an action of forwarding
> with a parameter of where to forward and another to see if he has permission
> to forward to PSTN numbers. Seems like a very handy table for it.
>
> Now, my current method of doing this is with this horrid mixture of external
> scripts, stripping portions off the SIP_HF_FROM header (since it comes with
> additional info like tags and brackets and comments), and feeding the new
> stuff back into an SQL query to determine whether or not the call needs to be
> blocked, forwarded, and if either, where it goes.
>
> It's a mess, I'll admit, but it's because I've been poring over
AVPops stuff
> and have yet to figure out what I'm actually DOING with any of it. I get that
> it uses little i:XX constructs as variables (which is bizarre, but whatever --
> I imagine I could alias them to something human-readable). And... well...
> that's about as far as I've gotten deciphering the API docs and making them
> into something usable.
>
> I imagine I would what... set the avp_table to be calls_forwarding, and then
> create some schemes for it (?)... but after that, actually doing things like
> taking just the sip:bob@fred.com portion of an incoming uri (which would look
> along the lines of "Ima Doofus"
> <sip:bob@fred.com:5060;user=tel>tag=something;tag2=something else ) and then
> trying to determine if that user is on the list of blocked users and, if so,
> what should be the response action... or taking the callee info, and if the
> callee isn't available, checking to see if he has a forwarding number,
> checking to see where it goes, etc, etc.
>
> It all SEEMS like it should be elementary stuff, but I'm simply not getting
> it. Anyone have any good references, well-detailed documentation, long,
> in-depth books on the topic they could send me toward?
>
> I'd be your friend for, like, ever. :)
>
> N.
>
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