Re: [Asterisk-java-users] Backward compatibility and startup performance of DefaultAsteriskManager in Asterisk-Java 1.2 (was: ANNOUNCEMENT: Asterisk-Java 0.2-rc1 released)

[Jan E. <jan...@pl...>]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 22:22, Stefan Reuter wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:53 +0300, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> > Seems to work just fine for me. The only thing so far that has bitten me
> > is the change from Channel.getExtension() to
> > Channel.get???().getExtension().
>
> Oh yes, it is not nice to just remove those methods ;)
> I readded these methods for 0.2, now there are shortcuts for
> - Channel.getCurrentExtension().getContext()
> - Channel.getCurrentExtension().getExtension()
> - Channel.getCurrentExtension().getPriority()
> Besides backward compatibility, thats probably handy if you are not
> interested in the channel's extension history.

Ah, well, I already use getCurrentExtension() so it's better to have the code 
updated to what will become and not keep it as what has been. Maybe add a 
small comment in the Javadoc that they are equivalent?

> > I do notice a significantly longer connect/startup time, but I haven't
> > tried to track it down yet, could well be something I do that's not
> > necessary anymore.
>
> This is due to the way the queue initialization works now. I fixed
> Asterisk 1.2 to send a QueueStatusComplete event which Asterisk-Java now
> waits for and that was not send by Asterisk 1.0.x. So when using
> Asterisk-Java with Asterisk 1.0.x you will run into a timeout (default
> is 5 seconds).
> If you don't need queue information you can get around that with
> Asterisk 1.0.x by setting skipQueues to true in DefaultAsteriskManager.

No, I rather have queue info properly on startup, even on 1.0, than a somewhat 
faster startup. I just noticed the extra delay, it doesn't bother me. My app 
isn't meant to be started frequently so 5s is no issue at all.

> > I also see a lot of fun functionality that's only available in the 1.2
> > version of Asterisk, maybe I should get someone to upgrade our internal
> > development server. :)
>
> Yes that will be worth it. Asterisk 1.2 includes several nice
> enhancements to the Manager API.

Ok, I'll convince someone else to do it for us. :) Thanks for the great 
release.

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Jan Ekholm
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