On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, A J Stiles wrote:
I want, when a call comes in on someone's DDI number (which the person
who dialled it can only possibly have obtained by dialling 1471 after we
called them), to be able to look up the caller's details from one of our
databases (where the number ought to be stored, because we already
dialled it).
Now, this search is going to take some time; so I'd like for the AGI
script to fork a clone of itself, so the parent process can exit and the
dialplan continue on to ring the person's phone, while the database
lookup is done in the background (the script doesn't need to have any
further contact with Asterisk -- it will initiate any necessary future
communication via other channels).
I solved a similar problem with a multi-threaded AGI.
I created a thread to play 'Please wait while we verify your card details'
while the main program did the database look ups and sent the auth out to
our card processor.
By the time the prompt finished, I had the response back from the card
processor so the 'wait' appeared to the caller to be instantaneous.
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Thanks in advance,
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Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000
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