SER CVS head, new select identifiers info - was - Re: [Serusers]Textops with AVPs?

Luis Silva lfs12 at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 14 14:41:10 CEST 2006 

Hi :) The second question I already know the answer (xlset_attr()).
The others I need some help.
tks anyway.

>From: "Greger V. Teigre" <greger at teigre.com>
>To: Luis Silva <lfs12 at hotmail.com>
>CC: serusers at iptel.org
>Subject: Re: SER CVS head, new select identifiers info - was - Re: 
>[Serusers]Textops with AVPs?
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:57:03 +0200
>
>Hi Luis, you forgot to copy the list :-)
>I'm not the right person to ask these questions. I stay a bit behind the 
>bleeding edge as I focus mostly on documentation from a "what everybody 
>needs" perspective (i.e. ONsip.org best practice configurations).
>There has been several threads lately addressing some of these. Maybe some 
>of the developers can help out?!
>g-)
>
>Luis Silva wrote:
>>Hi!
>>can I just ask you 4 more things?
>>
>>1 - What is the difference between $ and % ?
>>2 - is it possible to concatenate avps or strings?
>>3 - is there another way for doing the same thing as avp_subst but without 
>>using the avp module?
>>4 - is it possible for doing this: @contact[1].uri = "sip:"; ?
>>
>>Tks for the answer. these are all my questions. please help me.  Tks in 
>>advance
>>Regards
>>
>>
>>>From: "Greger V. Teigre" <greger at teigre.com>
>>>To: Luis Silva <lfs12 at hotmail.com>
>>>CC: serusers at iptel.org, jan at iptel.org
>>>Subject: Re: SER CVS head, new select identifiers info - was - Re: 
>>>[Serusers]Textops with AVPs?
>>>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:41:36 +0200
>>>
>>>AFAIK, there is no single place to find all the @vars. It's still on the 
>>>to-do...
>>>Jan: Could you provide some quick pointers?
>>>g-)
>>>
>>>Luis Silva wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Hi Greger, where can I find the complete list of all the @vars?
>>>>
>>>>@from, @from.uri, @to, @to.uri, @from.tag, @from.name, @to.tag.
>>>>  @to.name, @from.params, @to.params, @contact, @contact.uri,
>>>>  @contact.params, @contact.expires, @contact.q, @via, and so on.  <---
>>>>
>>>>Regards,Luis Silva
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>From: "Greger V. Teigre" <greger at teigre.com>
>>>>>To: sip <sip at arcdiv.com>
>>>>>CC: serusers at lists.iptel.org
>>>>>Subject: Re: SER CVS head, new select identifiers info - was - Re: 
>>>>>[Serusers]Textops with AVPs?
>>>>>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:47:11 +0200
>>>>>
>>>>>It's in head only (0.10.x track)
>>>>>g-)
>>>>>
>>>>>sip wrote:
>>>>>>Greger,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sounds incredibly handy. Is this available only in SER head or is it 
>>>>>>something
>>>>>>that's been around for a little while (i.e. do I have any hope of 
>>>>>>using it in
>>>>>>ser 0.9.6) ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>N.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:18:38 +0200, Greger V. Teigre wrote
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I repost Jan's original description of the "select identifier"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>functionality. Since then, more select identifiers have been added, 
>>>>>>both from
>>>>>>core and modules.
>>>>>>g-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>SER core can parse select identifiers using the configuration parser.
>>>>>>  A select identifiers begins with @ characters and contains several
>>>>>>  components/tokens delimited by . (unless it is integer component).
>>>>>>  Integer components are enclosed in [], for example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>@contact[1].uri
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This identifier is converted into binary structure which contains the
>>>>>>  array of components. After that the parser tries to lookup function
>>>>>>  that matches the identifier.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Available functions are arranged in a tree-like structure. When
>>>>>>  looking up a function the tree is traversed (starting at the root)
>>>>>>  until the parser finds corresponding function. The part of the tree
>>>>>>  containing TLS functions looks like:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"tls"-+-"peer"-+-"subj"-+-"name" (select_peer_name())
>>>>>>  | \
>>>>>>  | "state" (select_peer_state())
>>>>>>  |
>>>>>>  +-"issuer"-+-"name" (select_peer_issuer_name())
>>>>>>  \
>>>>>>  "state" (select_peer_issuer_state())
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thus when you write @tls.peer.subj.state in the configuration file
>>>>>>  then the parser will traverse the tree until it reaches
>>>>>>  select_peer_state() function and then it would remember that this
>>>>>>  function should be called.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The tree of identifiers and functions is built dynamically at runtime.
>>>>>>  This is a nice feature becase this way modules can register their 
>>>>>>own
>>>>>>  functions or whole subtrees and make their functions available in 
>>>>>>the
>>>>>>  configuration file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thus if you load TLS module then all @tls.* selects become avaiable,
>>>>>>  if you do not load the module they are not available. Only a couple 
>>>>>>of
>>>>>>  core functions and the framework is built in the core, the rest can 
>>>>>>be
>>>>>>  in modules.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This framework is currently used in tls and xmlrpc modules. XMLRPC
>>>>>>  module exports the name of the XML-RPC method to the script. TLS
>>>>>>  module exports information from TLS layer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The SER core itself contains a couple of functions that can retrieve
>>>>>>  various parts of a SIP message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>@from, @from.uri, @to, @to.uri, @from.tag, @from.name, @to.tag.
>>>>>>  @to.name, @from.params, @to.params, @contact, @contact.uri,
>>>>>>  @contact.params, @contact.expires, @contact.q, @via, and so on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>TLS related functions are described in a separate email.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>sip wrote: Sounds like something I might look more into. Thanks, 
>>>>>>>Greger. Is
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>there
>>>>>>anything written more about @var constructs? I checked the admin guide 
>>>>>>(I
>>>>>>know... that was kind of silly considering how out of date it is ;) ), 
>>>>>>and
>>>>>>tried to do a search in Google (it seems to ignore the @, so @var just 
>>>>>>gives
>>>>>>me every message with the word 'var' in it) and didn't see anything. 
>>>>>>Is there
>>>>>>anything over at OnSIP discussing it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>N.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:35:11 +0200, Greger V. Teigre wrote
>>>>>>    If this functionality was added in later openser versions than 
>>>>>>0.9,
>>>>>>  it will most likely not be in SER. What you are describing is hard 
>>>>>>to do with the avpops version in 0.9. The avpops module was generic 
>>>>>>enough to do more than it was designed for; making some code 
>>>>>>operations quite dirty in 0.9 (using the ruri as a temporary storage 
>>>>>>while manipulating a variable). SER head uses @var to more directly 
>>>>>>access data instead of going through a module. You may want to have a 
>>>>>>look at it! g-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>sip wrote:
>>>>>>    Is there a version of textops that can do substs with AVPs that 
>>>>>>will work on
>>>>>>SER 0.9.6 or is that an openSER-only modification of the code?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm curious because we're ALSO running into the issues of charging the
>>>>>>call-forwarding user for forwarding a call to the PSTN instead of 
>>>>>>charging the
>>>>>>calling party. Ideally, I'd like to rewrite the from address solely 
>>>>>>for the
>>>>>>purpose of authenticating the user who's doing the forwarding and 
>>>>>>charging him
>>>>>>for the call, but that would likely break things as there'd be no way 
>>>>>>to get
>>>>>>back to the original user if I just rewrote the from username.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>SO, I thought, why not let the b2bua handle the details and just 
>>>>>>forward a uri
>>>>>>with a prefix string that includes the user who's forwarding the call 
>>>>>>(the
>>>>>>original RURI instead of just the rewritten one).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And there's the trick. How do I craft a RURI out of bits and pieces of 
>>>>>>things
>>>>>>into one long RURI?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If it were all the same number, I could use prefix, but it's dynamic 
>>>>>>(as is
>>>>>>the nature of most things), so prefix won't work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How do I take
>>>>>>
>>>>>>RURI=1105
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And add to it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The rewritten RURI from the call forwarding info: 18005551212
>>>>>>
>>>>>>AND the prefix for the b2bua auth: 9999
>>>>>>
>>>>>>To make:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>new ruri: 9999110518005551212
>>>>>>
>>>>>>N.
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