[Users] Re: [Devel] New module: perl

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Bastian,

one small update - the perl module is not automatically compiled as it 
depends on an external library (which may or may not be installed).

regards,
bogdan

Bastian Friedrich wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>since last friday, OpenSER HEAD has a new module, called perl. As the name 
>suggests, it incorporates a Perl interpreter within OpenSER.
>
>What can you do with it?
>========================
>The perl module lets you request information from the SIP message currently 
>active, lets you make decisions based on that information and finally modify 
>the SIP message.
>
>In other words, you can do almost everything you could have done in the 
>OpenSER configuration file, plus much, much more.
>
>How do I use it?
>================
>The perl module should be automatically compiled in current CVS checkouts of 
>the HEAD branch, as long as you have a fairly recent Perl version (including 
>possibly necessary development packages) installed on your system. Load it in 
>your OpenSER configuration just like all the other modules.
>
>Set the two module parameters "filename" and "modpath"; the first one points 
>to your perl script (samples are included in the doc directory), the second 
>points to the path where the Perl packages reside (they currently are 
>not "installed" anywhere automatically. Feel free to do that yourself).
>
>In the configuration file, you may then call the functions defined in your 
>Perl script with the "perl_exec" and "perl_exec_simple" functions. The 
>samples and the README file should tell you more about it.
>
>What should the Perl script look like?
>======================================
>Please take a look at the doc/samples directory located in the perl module 
>directory. They should give you an introduction of how such a script could 
>look like.
>
>The full API is described in the README file.
>
>The module documentation on the OpenSER website is not 100% apt as of now, but 
>should be updated during the next days.
>
>Great! And now?
>===============
>Please feel free to test the perl module. Although it currently runs fine for 
>me, deployment in production environments is not recommended. Tell me about 
>your experiences and any bugs you found. If you write a test script, I'd be 
>thankfull if you send it to me for inclusion as a sample.
>
>If you have any questions or remarks, please send a mail to the users or 
>developer mailing lists (depending on the focus), or directly to me.
>
>Thx for your attention, Regards,
>   Bastian
>
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