[OpenSIPS-Users] [OpenSIPS-News] NEW additions to configuration file routes

[Brian]

This is awesome! Thank you and keep on good work!

Brian
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www.neotiq.com

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Anca Vamanu <anca at opensips.org> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> In the last weeks the configuration possibilities for OpenSIPS have been
> enriched with new additions related to the routes. The intention was to
> extend the action range and also to make the configuration file easier to
> write and read.
>
> 1. The routes can have string names also, not only numerical IDs as it was
> until now.  This way the routing flow will be more meaningful and easier to
> understand and follow. The backward compatibility was kept - and you can
> also use number IDs as route names.
> Ex:
> ----
> route[relay] {...}
>
> route{...; route(relay); ....}
> ----
>
> 2. Two new types of routes were added. They are different to the routes
> that existed until now (route, onreply route, failure route, branch route,
> local route) because they are not triggered at the receipt of a SIP message
> but do independent processing.
> The first one is *startup_route* - called only once when the server is
> started and before the listener processes are created. You can configure
> here some initialization actions to ease up the future processing. For
> example, you could take some values from database and store them in cache or
> in shared memory pseudovariables to have faster access to those values when
> needed.
> Ex:
> -----
> startup_route {
> avp_db_query("select gwlist where ruleid==1",$avp(i:100));
>     cache_store("local", "rule1", "$avp(i:100)");
> }
> -----
>
> The second one is *timer_route* - called on a timer basis at a given
> interval. This can be used to configure some periodical actions that do some
> data refresh actions for example. The time interval is given after the name
> of the route separated by comma and it represents a value in seconds.
> Ex:
> -----
>  timer_route[gw_update, 300] {
>    avp_db_query("select gwlist where ruleid==1",$avp(i:100));
>    $shv(i:100) =$avp(i:100);
> }
> -----
>
> 3. One new type of *onreply_route* was added: *per branch on reply route*.
> Sometimes it is useful to know in a reply route to which branch it belongs
> to. Now this is very simple to achieve - if you call t_on_reply("name") from
> a branch route then only the replies for that branch will go through
> onreply_route[name].
> Ex:
> -------
> branch_route[1] {
>     if ($rU=="alice")
>         t_on_reply("alice"); # the "alice" reply route
>                              # is set only for second branch
> }
>
>
> onreply_route[alice] {
>     xlog("received reply on the branch from alice\n");
> }
>
>
> Enjoy them.
>
> Regards,
> Anca
>
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