| Summary: | ASTERISK-00636: Add extension "e" for error handling | ||
| Reporter: | atacomm (atacomm) | Labels: | |
| Date Opened: | 2003-12-07 12:57:56.000-0600 | Date Closed: | 2011-06-07 14:05:22 |
| Priority: | Major | Regression? | No |
| Status: | Closed/Complete | Components: | Core/General |
| Versions: | Frequency of Occurrence | ||
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| Description: | Several commands such as Background and Goto hangup upon failure and do not provide a method of handling the error. I am suggestioning adding a special extension of "e" for error handling, allowing one to attempt to recover if something during the execution fails. e is not a recommended path for a replacement to n+101 on things such as Dial, and is only being suggested for errors in reading/executing the extensions file. | ||
| Comments: | By: ww (ww) 2003-12-07 16:04:38.000-0600 can you produce a patch that implements this? By: Tilghman Lesher (tilghman) 2003-12-07 20:10:24.000-0600 Bad idea. In many places, -1 is returned for out of memory conditions. You could get a death spiral taking down the machine (as an application in extension e also returns -1, invoking extension e again, ad infinitum), instead of just hanging up the call. Handling critical errors should probably be done in C in the core code, not optionally in the dialplan. By: Brian West (bkw918) 2003-12-08 22:53:58.000-0600 I agree. | ||