[Users] BRANCH route support

Iqbal iqbal at gigo.co.uk
Wed Aug 24 13:26:59 CEST 2005


tks, I was just thinking with all these new features a simple one 
paragraph of "how to use it" would help , because then users like me 
could see how it may help/fit into their scenario

Iqbal

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:

> Hi Iqbal,
>
> you can use the branch route if you want to add/remove headers 
> independently, per branch. Imagine the following scenario:
>
> you are doing parallel forking to a phone and to a GW; for the phone 
> you want to add header to set the ringing type, but this make no sense 
> to send also to GW; on the other hand you want to add to GW some 
> headers containing billing information, info that you do not want to 
> go also to the phone.
>
> So, what you do in branch route? if uri points to GW, add the billing 
> (or whatever) header to the request; if points to an usrloc client, 
> add the ringing type header.
>
> regards,
> bogdan
>
> Iqbal wrote:
>
>> So as a user, how would/could I use this
>>
>> Iqbal
>>
>> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I just finished adding support for BRANCH routes. The idea and frame 
>>> were partial ported from SER (thanks to Juha for extracting and 
>>> adapting patches). For those who are not familiar with this concept: 
>>> branch route is a route to be execute separately for each branch 
>>> before being sent out - changes in that route should reflect only on 
>>> that branch.
>>>
>>> I say partial because the features, implementation were improved. 
>>> Shortly here is a list:
>>>    - remove from grammar default BRANCH ROUTE definition - since 
>>> this is a 100% TM route, make no sense
>>>    - RURI may be changed from a branch route (the routing will 
>>> accordingly change); This capability is essential, since there are 
>>> core function which alter the RURI, functions which cannot be 
>>> blocked in specific route types - not handling this, may easyly lead 
>>> to memory faults or leaks.
>>>    - flags per branch - if flags are changed in branch_route, the 
>>> change will not be visible for other branches, but it will be 
>>> visible for all replies of that branch (it might be useful for per 
>>> branch NAT traversal)
>>>    - full AVP support in branch route
>>>    - more efficient handling of lumps (changes in request) - instead 
>>> of cloning and removing the entire lump tree for each branch, using 
>>> lump flags, after each branch, the original lump tree will be just 
>>> cleaned only what was added during branch route will be removed).
>>>
>>>
>>> still pending: how to handle append_branch() core function.....I 
>>> will prefer to handle properly all core functions, since their 
>>> execution cannot be banned from specific routes.
>>>
>>> For the moment only textops, avpops and xlog modules were enabled 
>>> for branch route. Other will come in the future.
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Bogdan
>>>      PS: testing done only superficial (is quite late now).....any 
>>> help/reports are welcomed :D
>>>
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>>
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