Re: [Asterisk-Users] Config File Storage

[tim panton]

On 24 Jan 2006, at 01:42, Douglas Garstang wrote: I'm trying to think of a way to store/represent the Asterisk .conf files. One method is to store them in MySQL in some format, and then write some scripts to query MySQL and generate the conf files before doing a reload. MySQL is pretty heavy handed though. I'm looking for something a bit more lightweight, maybe.... some sort of XML based database for Linux, where the config files could be stored in XML format? Doesn't seem like it would be too hard to represent them this way. Yeah, we use XML as a DB-lite in some of our websites (not for Asterisk config). It is cute but you have to watch out if you update often or concurrently. Only a single process can update an file xml at a time. What's more you have to rewrite the whole file, which can be expensive. Trying to find a way to store them so they can be accessed easier from a web interface. If you plan to do on-demand updates via this interface you are probably going to find it easier to use a 'real' database, ideally one with transactions, rollback, views etc.... but that is a whole other argument :-) Thanks, Doug http://www.westhawk.co.uk/

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