[Kamailio-Devel] avp naming

[Henning Westerholt]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> working to integrate the PV module I reached the AVPs and after a short
> analyze I wonder (and ask you) whether you should drop the naming scheme
> we have in Kamailio (integer id and string name) and stick to string
> names all the time. ser seems to use mostly that although looks like
> support for ID is still there, but I cannot see how they can be used
> with the naming scheme in config (e.g., is it possible to have $f.i:34
> in config to refer to avp with id 34?).

Hi Daniel,

i think its a good idea to go only for string names. We use only AVP aliases 
all the time in our configurations, because this typed names were so 
cumbersome to remember and type.

> Drawback is the naming scheme backward compatibility. We can treat 
> "i:20" simply as string or throw error at startup (I prefer the second 
> because is cleaner in long time).

I also think the second approach is better.

Cheers,

Henning