[SR-Dev] Kamailio MI in shared modules

[Jan Janak]

On 19-02 14:35, Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2009 at 14:28, Jan Janak <jan at iptel.org> wrote:
> > On 19-02 14:24, Jan Janak wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I just figured that the kamailio interface in shared modules (such as
> > > db_berkeley and db_flatstore) wouldn't work. Such modules are defined with
> > > -DSER_MOD_INTERFACE and thus use the module_exports structure from SER, which
> > > does not have the MI structure entry.
> > > 
> > > So although such modules have all the MI commands and they link with libkmi,
> > > none of the management functions gets exported through the module API.
> > > 
> > > Is there any solution to this yet?
> > > 
> > >   Jan.
> > 
> > Maybe the modules which contain MI commands should be recompiled with
> > -DOPENSER_MOD_INTERFACE with the module interface structures changed to those
> > from kamailio because ser module structures are a subset of those from
> > kamailio? Any opinions or recommendations?
> 
> ser module structures are not a subset of kamailio (e.g. rpc, on_break
> a.s..o.).
> 
> IMHO in the future we should drop mi completely (rpc does the same
> thing, it's less complex and much more easier to use).
> The same should go for statistics (they need a complete rewrite, they
> are paritculary performance adverse :-)).

OK, is there any solution we can use now? Or do we just ignore the MI problem
for the moment?

  Jan.