[Devel] Re: [Users] Per-branch flags

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Iqbal,

that was an example to show the usage of the branch flags - it's not 
quite a realistic scenario ;).

there is a huge range of scenario you may find the branch flags useful - 
typically parallel forking to destination that must be handled 
differently (because of NAT, security, privacy, required extra headers, 
etc)......so it;s not only about GW :)

regards,
bogdan

Iqbal wrote:

> So...I could send a call out to x number of pstn gateways, and then 
> drop the ones I get a negative from, or just process the one which 
> gives me the first reply, rather than sending out a requuest to one 
> GW, waiting for reply, if negative sending to the next....or have I 
> missed the point
>
> Iqbal
>
> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I just committed on CVS full support for per-branch flags.
>>
>> What's the difference between the flags we already have and these new 
>> one? So far we ave in OpenSER flags that will be called "global" 
>> flags - global because they were visible everywhere in the 
>> transaction (in all routes and in all sequential replies/request). 
>> The new flags, called "branch" flags are flags that will be visible 
>> only for a specific branch - in all replies and routes connected to 
>> this branch.
>>
>> For example: I have a call parallel forking to GW and to a user. And 
>> I would like to know from which branch I will get the final negative 
>> reply (if so). I will set a branch route before relaying the calls 
>> (with the 2 branches). The branch route will be separately executed 
>> for each branch; in the branch going to GW (I can identified it by 
>> looking to RURI), I will set a branch flag. This flag will appear 
>> only in the onreply route run for replied from GW. It will be also be 
>> visible in failure route if the final elected reply belongs to the GW 
>> branch. This flags will not be visible in the other branch (in routes 
>> executing replies from the other branch).
>>
>> how to use it?
>> The request flags may be split in two arrays - globals and branch 
>> flags - by using the TM parameter "branch_flag_mask" (see 
>> http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/0.10.x/tm.html#AEN268). Flags 
>> covered by this mask will be processed as branch flags, the rest of 
>> them as global flags.
>>
>> Also, modules may set branch flags before transaction creation (for 
>> the moment this feature is not available in script). The REGISTRAR 
>> module is the first to use this feature. If the "use_branch_flags" 
>> param is enabled (see 
>> http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/0.10.x/registrar.html#AEN236), 
>> the NAT flag will be push in branch flags instead in message flags - 
>> IMPORTANT: be sure that NAT flag is in the range of the branch flags 
>> ad defined in TM. Using this, NAT traversal per branch may be 
>> experimented....
>>
>> regards,
>> bogdan
>>
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