[Kamailio-Users] Global constants

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 1/25/10 3:13 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> What is the recommended way (if any) to have a "global constant" that 
> exists outside of any particular routes, in K3?
>
> My objective is to define a global DB_URL that can be used by all 
> modules everywhere, but I can't just 'and' the modules together, e.g.
>
>    modparam("mod1|mod2|mod3|...", "db_url", "...")
>
> because the modules are dynamically included (thanks to include_file!) 
> and I do not know the list of all loaded modules easily at runtime. So 
> instead, db_url is configured on a per-module basis.
>
> I thought preprocessor constants (e.g. #!define and friends) would 
> allow me to set values for them, but they don't, so that's out.  What 
> other options are available that do not involve an event/local route, 
> and operate instead in the completely global namespace?
>
> Right now, I am using a Perl script that manually substitutes the 
> value of the db_url modparam everywhere in a large directory tree.  :/ 
>  What am I not thinking of?
indeed define does not take values, maybe in the future... the option is 
to stick with perl for now.

Note that you can do:

loadmodule abc
modparam(abc, ...)

loadmodule xyz
modparam(xyz, ...)

So you can set the parameters immediately you load the module.

Cheers,
Daniel

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