Re: [Asterisk-java-users] Newbie problem getting started with HelloAGIScript

[Liam O'H. <lia...@gm...>]

> I would recommend getting an IDE if you plan on working in  Java for a wh=
ile ;-)
>
> Eclipse & NetBeans are full-featured free  ones, while simple free ones l=
ike BlueJ also work.

Thanks for the good advice. I imagine I'll be using Eclipse.


> For commandline, try 'javac HelloAGIScript.java -classpath  asterisk-java=
.jar'

I discovered the solution which, as I suspected, is Java-newbie
related as opposed to Asterisk-Java related, however, for the purposes
of closing this thread (and in case anyone other java newbie needs
this answer) here is the solution :

Read the documentation properly, read the source and read what the
compiler is telling you!!

The whole point of implementing BaseAGIScript instead of
AbstractAGIScript is to remove the necessity to pass <channel> as a
parameter to the methods. As such, you should remove <channel> as a
parameter from the method calls in the example in the tutorial. The
point could be made that the tutorial should contain a compilable
example, but it's also not unreasonable to assume a certain basic
familiarity with Java.

So, the HelloAGIScript.java source should read :

import net.sf.asterisk.fastagi.AGIChannel;
import net.sf.asterisk.fastagi.AGIException;
import net.sf.asterisk.fastagi.AGIRequest;
import net.sf.asterisk.fastagi.BaseAGIScript;

public class HelloAGIScript extends BaseAGIScript
{
    public void service(AGIRequest request, AGIChannel channel)
            throws AGIException
    {
        // Answer the channel...
        answer();

        // ...say hello...
        streamFile("welcome");

        // ...and hangup.
        hangup();
    }
}