Thanks Joshua ! I was not aware that extension's hint in dialplan can have additional data in the parentheses - it might be worth adding that info to wiki.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 10:08 AM Nenad Radosavljevic <nenadr at snr.rs> wrote: > > > Hello ! > > > > Is there something wrong with the function HINT(<extension number>,n) ? > > Note the param n - it is supposed to get (as far as I understand the > > documentation) CALLERID(name) of the extension (via extension's hint). > > > > It does not get the caller id name. I believe if configured as such: > > exten => 10,hint,PJSIP/10(Bob) > > It would return the value Bob but I have not tested it. > I have just tested it and it is working just like you have described it. > For PJSIP the PJSIP_ENDPOINT dialplan function[1] can be used to retrieve > the configured callerid name. > > [1] > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+Function_PJSIP_ENDPOINT > I'm using that approach now, but I would like to switch to a more generic one like this with a hint-name. Thanks again. Best regards, Nenad Radosavljevic On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:06 PM Nenad Radosavljevic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello ! > > Is there something wrong with the function HINT(<extension number>,n) ? > Note the param n - it is supposed to get (as far as I understand the documentation) CALLERID(name) of the extension (via extension's hint). > > Example configuration: > > pjsip.conf: > > [10] > type=endopoint > . > . > callerid = Test extension <10> > . > . > extensions.conf: > > [exts] > > exten => 10,hint,PJSIP/10 > exten => 10,1,Set(DEV=${HINT(10@exts)}) > exten => 10,n,Set(DEVNAME=${HINT(10@exts,n)}) > exten => 10,n,Noop(DEV is ${DEV}) > exten => 10,n,Noop(DEVNAME is ${DEVNAME}) > > on asterisk 16.9.0: > - first noop prints: DEV is PJSIP/10 > - second noop prints: DEVNAME is > > Way I understand the documentation for function HINT, I would expect the DEVNAME variable to be set to "Test extension". > > Any "light" on this topic would be much appreciated. Thanks. > > Regards, > Nenad Radosavljevic
-- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: https://community.asterisk.org/ New to Asterisk? Start here: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
