[SR-Users] Reload lua script?

[Javier Gallart]

Thanks Daniel

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> On 3/29/12 11:49 AM, Javier Gallart wrote:
>
>> Hello all
>>
>> I'm starting to play with lua scripting in Kamailio. It's really cool,
>> some complex stuff in the script becomes really easy this way. The script
>> is becoming quite big, therefore I'd like to use lua_run instead of
>> lua_dofile. My doubt is pretty  basic: if i load a script in memory at
>> startup via the "load" parameter and the script is modifed afterwards, is
>> there any way to reload the module so the script is reread?
>>
> the two contexts created by app_lua were designed one for loading at
> startup and the other for reloading every time. Reloading on demand at
> runtime is not possible. I thought of checking the timestamp of the script,
> but can be a bit risky if saving on intermediary state during updates. The
> scripts are loaded in each process, sending a mi/rpc command will require
> to do some inter-process signaling. Both doable, not in my short term
> plans, though, if someone is contributing, will be appreciated.
>
Understood, we may give it a try in the next weeks.

>
> Some options for speed up with existing code:
> - you can compile the Lua scripts, so reloading it each time will be
> faster (no more compile on-the-fly)
>
I agree it's the most logical approach.

> - not sure about this one: in your script loaded at startup you may have
> some logic to load another script based on your rules (e.g., file
> timestamp, periodically, ...)
>
Not sure either, will try.

What about using luajit?

Regards

Javi

>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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