Re: [Asterisk-java-users] getChannelByName returning an old hungup channel instead of the current one

[Stefan R. <ste...@re...>]

Gaetan Minet wrote:
> This is actually exactly what happened to me. I was working with a
> bristuffed 1.2.9 that includes uniqueid in all those events and my
> queue/parking manager worked ok.
> Then I have had to jump to a non bristuffed 1.2.12 that only has the
> channel name and started experiencing weird channels and NPEs (linked
> channel of an hung up channel is null...)

I hope I don't have such issues in my code as I am also using bristuffed
Asterisks most of the time.

> Then we'll have boiler code in every call such as
> if (chan =3D=3D null || ! chan.isActive())
> unless well announced and documented this will be a frequent mistake
> among users I think.

Yes you are right, this is error prone. So we sould either use your
getActiveChannelByName or an explicit isChannelAvailable() method.

> In that case, we should also return the most recent hung up channel,
> isn't it ?

Yes, probably just by looking at the date the channel was created which
should work in both cases.

>> Would you like to submit a patch for this issue?
>>  =20
> Ok I'll  update my trunk and try the fix asap.

That's great.

=3DStefan

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