[Users] Per-branch flags

[Iqbal]

So...I could send a call out to x number of pstn gateways, and then drop 
the ones I get a negative from, or just process the one which gives me 
the first reply, rather than sending out a requuest to one GW, waiting 
for reply, if negative sending to the next....or have I missed the point

Iqbal

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I just committed on CVS full support for per-branch flags.
>
> What's the difference between the flags we already have and these new 
> one? So far we ave in OpenSER flags that will be called "global" flags 
> - global because they were visible everywhere in the transaction (in 
> all routes and in all sequential replies/request). The new flags, 
> called "branch" flags are flags that will be visible only for a 
> specific branch - in all replies and routes connected to this branch.
>
> For example: I have a call parallel forking to GW and to a user. And I 
> would like to know from which branch I will get the final negative 
> reply (if so). I will set a branch route before relaying the calls 
> (with the 2 branches). The branch route will be separately executed 
> for each branch; in the branch going to GW (I can identified it by 
> looking to RURI), I will set a branch flag. This flag will appear only 
> in the onreply route run for replied from GW. It will be also be 
> visible in failure route if the final elected reply belongs to the GW 
> branch. This flags will not be visible in the other branch (in routes 
> executing replies from the other branch).
>
> how to use it?
> The request flags may be split in two arrays - globals and branch 
> flags - by using the TM parameter "branch_flag_mask" (see 
> http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/0.10.x/tm.html#AEN268). Flags 
> covered by this mask will be processed as branch flags, the rest of 
> them as global flags.
>
> Also, modules may set branch flags before transaction creation (for 
> the moment this feature is not available in script). The REGISTRAR 
> module is the first to use this feature. If the "use_branch_flags" 
> param is enabled (see 
> http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/0.10.x/registrar.html#AEN236), the 
> NAT flag will be push in branch flags instead in message flags - 
> IMPORTANT: be sure that NAT flag is in the range of the branch flags 
> ad defined in TM. Using this, NAT traversal per branch may be 
> experimented....
>
> regards,
> bogdan
>
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