[Serusers] Avpops info....?

[Steve Blair]

   Is there a specific task you would like to implement? If so please 
explain what
you would like to accomplish and perhaps we can help with the avp_ops 
statements.

-Steve

sip wrote:

>Yeah... the problem with this documentation is that it was clearly written by
>someone who doesn't WRITE documentation as a matter of course, but needed
>something to be out there just to say there's documentation.  
>
>It's a little like a developer writing docs for his own code or API. VERY
>understandable to the developer himself, but not so crystal to anyone else.
>This is one of the primary reasons I never let my developers write their own
>API docs. They get with a tech writer, and the tech writer asks questions
>about what the API does, and then writes documentation in such a way that
>monkeys (such as myself) can understand. 
>
>I was looking for something a little more... lucid. 
>
>If it doesn't exist, cool. I'll keep muddling away and perhaps I'll hit that
>eureka point of understanding somewhere, but I was hoping.
>
>N.
>
>
>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:31 -0400, Paul Hazlett wrote
>  
>
>>The offical documentation for AVPOPS (for SER-0.9.x) can be found here:
>>
>>http://www.voice-system.ro/docs/avpops/0.9.0/
>>
>>Regards,
>>Paul
>>
>>On 9/22/05, sip <sip at arcdiv.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Is there any good, DETAILED information on AVPops usage that, say, doesn't
>>>read like a developers API reference page? Currently, I'm cleaning up portions
>>>of my ser.cfg which have horrid, ugly hacks in them that I put in to handle
>>>this case or that case...
>>>
>>>For instance, I use the calls_forwarding table to handle call blocking and
>>>call forwarding info (since it seems a little more reasonable than
>>>usr_preferences as it simply has more relevant tables).  For call blocking, I
>>>can say give a purpose of 'blocking' and an action of relay or reply... with
>>>parameters set to what kind of reply or where to relay (voicemail server?
>>>Alternate server? etc).  For forwarding, I can give an action of forwarding
>>>with a parameter of where to forward and another to see if he has permission
>>>to forward to PSTN numbers.  Seems like a very handy table for it.
>>>
>>>Now, my current method of doing this is with this horrid mixture of external
>>>scripts, stripping portions off the SIP_HF_FROM header (since it comes with
>>>additional info like tags and brackets and comments), and feeding the new
>>>stuff back into an SQL query to determine whether or not the call needs to be
>>>blocked, forwarded, and if either, where it goes.
>>>
>>>It's a mess, I'll admit, but it's because I've been poring over AVPops stuff
>>>and have yet to figure out what I'm actually DOING with any of it.  I get that
>>>it uses little i:XX constructs as variables (which is bizarre, but whatever --
>>>I imagine I could alias them to something human-readable). And... well...
>>>that's about as far as I've gotten deciphering the API docs and making them
>>>into something usable.
>>>
>>>I imagine I would what... set the avp_table to be calls_forwarding, and then
>>>create some schemes for it (?)... but after that, actually doing things like
>>>taking just the sip:bob at fred.com portion of an incoming uri (which would look
>>>along the lines of  "Ima Doofus"
>>><sip:bob at fred.com:5060;user=tel>tag=something;tag2=something else ) and then
>>>trying to determine if that user is on the list of blocked users and, if so,
>>>what should be the response action...  or taking the callee info, and if the
>>>callee isn't available, checking to see if he has a forwarding number,
>>>checking to see where it goes, etc, etc.
>>>
>>>It all SEEMS like it should be elementary stuff, but I'm simply not getting
>>>it. Anyone have any good references, well-detailed documentation, long,
>>>in-depth books on the topic they could send me toward?
>>>
>>>I'd be your friend for, like, ever. :)
>>>
>>>N.
>>>
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