[OpenSIPS-Users] Reading contents of a file - OpenSIPS 3.1

[Mark Allen]

Thanks Max. I've not tried using python, though I have used LUA before
which offers similar functionality. However, I would like a solution which
can be applied across most routes including startup and timer if possible.

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 14:56, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at sippysoft.com> wrote:

> Use app_python? Parsing is trivial and you can call internal function i.e. cache_store()
> right from your Python code.
>
> -Max
>
> On Fri., Nov. 13, 2020, 6:50 a.m. Mark Allen, <mark at allenclan.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Just would like to consult the hive mind. I want to read the contents of
>> a multi-line text file to be used by my OpenSIPS config. Ideally, I'll get
>> a key:value CSV pair from the file and store each pair in memcache - e.g.
>>
>> file contains:
>>
>> a, 113
>> b, 214
>> c, 771
>>
>> read it in line by line and cache_store() with the letter as the
>> attribute and the number as the value.
>>
>> I was thinking that I could use exec() to 'cat' the contents of the file,
>> storing stdout in an AVP, and then work through that array splitting letter
>> and number with a string transformation ready for cache_store(). However,
>> if I do this the full file contents are stored as a single string in the
>> first value with "#012" added in place of the new lines.
>>
>> Obviously, I can use a string transform s.select{} using #012 as a
>> delimiter in an intermediary step, but am I just doing this the hard way?
>> Is there a better way to achieve this?
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