[Kamailio-Devel] [Kamailio-Users] RFC: branches/location records control

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 08/22/08 09:29, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> regarding branch stuff, this is link to my thread about current problems
> with branching, which i consider more important to fix that giving
> pv access to currently (inadequate) branch information:
>
> http://lists.kamailio.org/pipermail/devel/2007-August/009043.html
>
> as result of this problem, core functions
> serialize_branches/next_branches are pretty much useless.  is made a big
> hack in load_contacts/next_contacts in order to solve it.
>   
does an AVP being a data structure solve this (if I understood properly 
the issue)? Even now, in other cases, working with avps is delicate, for 
example when loading multiple columns from database and in a row are 
null values -- the result in script gets desynchronized. What I am 
thinking here is that a row is loaded in a single AVP that has many 
values associated to inner attributes. Loading a branch structure in 
such AVP will result in:

$avp(d:xbranch=>uri)
$avp(d:xbranch=>dst_uri)
...

xbranch is the name of the avp, uri and dst_uri are inner attributes.

Perhaps $avp(d:xbranch) should return a string with comma separated list 
of serialized attributes.

Cheers,
Daniel

> -- juha
>
> ps. i just noticed that core cookbook
>
> http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/core-cookbook:1.4.x
>
> does not document the above mentioned functions.  this is actually good,
> because those functions are useless anyhow.
>   

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla
http://www.asipto.com