Can you eval() a system() ?

Hi all,

I "think" the answer to my question here is "yes...but it wont return what you want it to".

Nevertheless I am still trying to find a way to get
asterisk to inherit the value of a variable obtained from a shell command sequence

I have created a caller-id translation table for incoming skype calls (to avoid confusion when skype IDs come into * as CLI).

The ethos for doing this is my mate's wife (a voip 'naysayer') who asks searching questions of him... like "who is 'fido_xyz123' and why are they calling us?" when if it said "Freda&Jim" she would probably have just answered it.

the command line simply greps the file for ${callerid) and pipes it to a 'cut' command that retrieves the second field delimited by a ':' - it works fine manually in the shell.

It seems that, after much huffing about, a system() call cannot return the revised string, just a "I did it" or an "I didnt do it" if I've RTFM'd correctly

I have tried to eval(system()) but don't get my desired output.

I have seen references to app_backticks() , indeed I have found the C code, but haven't managed to get this integrated.

Is there a <<simple>> way of doing this please ? perl script I suppose ?

regards

BB

Hi

Two ideas

1. use the astdb and store the skype id as the key and the true caller id as the value, I do this for caller ID taging

or
2. have a look at curl

Ian

Why not just write a simple subroutine in the dialplan that changes the Caller ID with an if statement (or a list of them). Simple, effective and if your list of contacts isn't outrageous then that should work just fine.

Thanks
TheLostPacket

thelostpacket :

Why not just write a simple subroutine in the dialplan that changes the Caller ID with an if statement (or a list of them). Simple, effective and if your list of contacts isn't outrageous then that should work just fine.

Hi ,

Thats "kind of" what I am doing now, its rather ungainly (about 48 skype contacts) and I need to do it twice:

Once for translating inbound Skype IDs,
Once for translating outbound short dials back to skype IDs,

I want to set up a database table which I can manage without a dialplan , but that asterisk can use. Astdb seems to be the way forward as it is resillient to system reboots. However, I haven't yet done the research to establish how to rapidly populate the database table from outside of a dialplan.

I've finally got sisky EE working in trunk mode Ian, Seems there are many ways to skin the cat ! what an emb*****ance!

good now that it works though

regards

BB

Bigbloke, one word for you func_odbc. You can use some RDBMS like postgresql or mysql anything unixODBC supports actually.

Thanks
-TheLostPacket