[sr-dev] Delayed branches?

[Jasmin Schnatterbeck]

Hi,

the idea is to do parallel forking (not wait for reply or timeout), but
wait (for each branch) a specific amount of seconds, before sending out
the INVITE request to the contact.

This could be useful, if a user
- has a mailbox <somewhere>, which answers the call without waiting
(like many cell phone providers' mailboxes do, if a call gets forwarded
to them)
- would like to predefine multiple destinations, for example tel.
exchange and users phone, but the users phone should only ring
_additionally_ , if the call was not answered for <x> seconds by the
tel. exchange.
- ...

there are many use cases, but a function would be needed, which delays
further script processing for specific branches only or (that could be
the better solution) the definition of a special branch-individual avp
which holds the seconds to wait and which is evaluated by tm.

Jasmin

> Hi,
> 
> 
> What is the goal of a "delayed branch"? What you can do (and could do
> for many versions now) is the serial forking together with a defined
> timeout of some seconds for each branch... (e.g. first try location 1
> for a few seconds, then try location 2 for few seconds, ...).
> 
> 
> Carsten
> 
> 2010/6/30 Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com>
>         Klaus Darilion writes:
>         
>         > >> Hmm...letting the whole server sleep would not really be
>         the idea ;-)
>         > >
>         > > i don't think that the whole server will get to sleep, but
>         just the
>         > > process handling the request at hand.
>         >
>         > So if 4 user have delayed calling, 4 processes are sleeping,
>         thats not
>         > good.
>         
>         
>         it is not good, but such "sleeps" can happen also when an ua
>         is not
>         responding immediately, when you do an http query, etc.
>         
>         unfortunately a function
>         execute_next_function_asynchronously() does not
>         exit.
>         
>         -- juha
>         
>         
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