[Asterisk-java-users] How to test a FastAGI script without any Asterisk server ?

[Olivier <oza...@my...>]

Hi,

(I'm new to the list and I couldn't find in the archive, anything answering
my question.
Please, forgive me if this question has already been answered)

My question is "How can I test a FastAGI script without any Asterisk server
?".

I would like to develop a CTI application.
Ultimately, this CTI application will run on a dedicated server and exhange
data with an Asterisk server and a database server on the same LAN.

For the sake of simplicity, I would like to develop this CTI application
independently from any Asterisk server :
- I will develop a dummy call server
- as long as the target CTI application receives from the dummy call server,
the same input, it should reply to the dummy server, the same output,
- I will just have to substitute the dummy server with a running Asterisk
one to complete the setup.

>From reading Asterisk, the Future of Telephony, I understood that an
Asterisk server simply uses stdin, stdout and stderr files when calling an
AGI script :
- Asterisk sends line of text like :
agi_request: test.py
agi_channel: Zap/1-1


- Asterisk receives:
SET EXTENTION 122
SET VARIABLE var1 150

So, from an AGI script perspective, a simple set of echo or cat commands
behaves the same as a fully fledged Asterisk :
echo "agi_request: test.py\nagi_channel: Zap/1-1\n\n" | myagiscript     will
print "SET EXTENTION 122\nSET VARIABLE var1 150\n\n" on stdout

I'm searching the FastAGI equivalent.
>From Asterisk the Future of Telephony, I know FastAGI uses TCP instead of
stdin, stdout.

Which program shall I use to simply output AGI data from a server through
TCP ?
Something like :
mycmd "agi_request: test.py\nagi_channel: Zap/1-1\n\n" | myagiscript   which
would print "SET EXTENTION 122\nSET VARIABLE var1 150\n\n" somewhere.

Regards