[Devel] Re: RADIUS SIP_AVP format

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Juha Heinanen wrote:

>Bogdan-Andrei Iancu writes:
>
> > What I would like to define is a format which will allow both string and 
> > numbers for both avp name and avp value. In order to keep backward 
> > compatibility, the first solution I thing about is:
> >        NAME:STR_VAL
> >        NAME#NR_VAL
> >       #ID:STR_VAL
> >       #ID#NR_VAL
> > 
> > any opinion on this?
>
>why not simply check that if name only contains decimal digits, then
>name is ID?
>  
>
It will be confusing - you may have some avp name which is actually a 
number, but you want it as string. Also this approach is more processing 
consuming - to take all names and try to convert to numbers.

bogdan