[misterhouse-users] More xPL questions

[Brent D. <br...@de...>]

OK, since there is no class type for xPL like there is for xAP on incoming
messages, I am trying to find a way to distinguish whether an incoming
message is the message I am actually looking for (cid notification from
Asterisk) or not (for example, a heartbeat).

The problem I've run into is that hash items are not
de-allocated/de-initialized from message to message, they are just
over-written. So when a heartbeat message is received, the object still has
the hash information from the previous callerid message, so I can't test
with exists() because if there has ever been a callerid event since MH was
started, the test will be positive.

I am getting around this now by deleting the part of the hash that contains
the cid info after I process it (see code below).

$xpl_asterisk = new xPL_Item('ag-asterisk.asterisk1local');

if (($state = state_now $xpl_asterisk) &&
($xpl_asterisk->{'cid.asterisk'}{phone}!='')) {
        speak("There is an incoming call from
".$xpl_asterisk->{'cid.asterisk'}{cln}.", number is
".$xpl_asterisk->{'cid.asterisk'}{phone});
        delete $xpl_asterisk->{'cid.asterisk'};
}

Is this the best or only way to handle this? Boy, the class functionality of
xAP would sure come in handy here...is that just not part of the xPL
specification, or is this just how it is implemented in MH?

Thanks,

Brent