Re: [Partysip-dev] Originating calls from a plugin

[Peter Lord]

Aymeric Moizard wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Peter Lord wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is it possible to originate calls from a plugin ?  For example, I
> > would like to write something that does an alarm call.... with would
> > need to (at the right time of day) initiate a call to the party and
> > connect them to a terminal which would send the message.
> >    
>
> Plugins are only called when a new request is received... But, when you
> initiate a plugin, you could possibly start a thread that will do the
> job.
>
>
> The issue is more about initiating calls: partysip have no way to initiate
> outgoing requests without receiving one. The only way is to allocate a new
> osip instance, attach new callbacks and all...

I really need to access the functionality of partysip in some cases (ie 
manage and control a call orginated externally) but in other cases 
initiate calls  (and then manage them).  I can of course use the 
partysip plugins for one part and osip directly for the others, but I 
was just wondering if I could use just partysip for all.

I guess my question is really this - assuming I can solve the problem of 
kicking off the call (by for example, as you suggest, creating a 
seperate thread on startup), is there a partysip api to create a new 
call ?  Or is the only option to write directly to osip ?

> In fact, you surely don't need this in a plugin but you should instead
> write a new application. If you need info from partysip, then you can
> write info in a database updated by the new 'alarm' plugin. Then your new
> application will use this info to send messages or whatever...
>
> A sql plugin for writing info about users is already available in
> partysip. You can probably extend it to write the additionnal info you
> need and use this info in the external application.

Yes, thats a posibility, but I would like to avoid going through a database.

> I surely appreciate to see such application released in GPL :)

Of course :-), but still thinking through whats the best way forward for me,

Thanks for your response, much appreciated !

Pete