[OpenSIPS-Users] dialplan module - dpid - could it be a string?

[Kingsley Tart]

I've added it as a feature request:

https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/issues/2477

Cheers,
Kingsley.

On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 10:58 +0300, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> Indeed, it may be an interesting one. And as Ben said, we are also
> using M4 for the scripting, nevertheless, if you want to integrate
> with OpenSIPS Control Panel, it may become tricky ;)
> 
> Regards,
> On 4/20/21 9:05 PM, Ben Newlin wrote:
> > This sounds like it might be a good feature request [1] and I agree
> > it sounds nice. I can’t offer any assistance in that direction at
> > this time, but I wanted to say that we use M4 in our config scripts
> > to allow us to define string constants like this and make the
> > script more readable, among other reasons. Could be a good short-
> > term workaround. We specifically use it to define string-based
> > dialplan IDs for use in the script, just like this.
> >  
> > [1] 
> > https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title=%5BFEATURE%5D
> >  
> > Ben Newlin
> >  
> > From: Users <users-bounces at lists.opensips.org> on behalf of
> > Kingsley Tart <kingsley at dns99.co.uk>
> > Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 12:22 PM
> > To: OpenSIPS users mailling list <users at lists.opensips.org>
> > Subject: [OpenSIPS-Users] dialplan module - dpid - could it be a
> > string?
> > 
> > I love the dialplan module and how the rules can be reloaded from a
> > DB.
> > 
> > However, is there any reason why the dpid can't be a string instead
> > of
> > an integer? (ie the value that's stored in the dialplan.dpid
> > field).
> > 
> > I think it would be handy to be able to apply names to dialplan
> > rulesets as it would be more intuitive. If dpid could be a string,
> > then
> > I could for example create a ruleset that I could refer to as
> > "uk_local_to_e164" instead of "7".
> > 
> > Could this be a thing?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > Kingsley.
> > 
> > 
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