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FreeSWITCH 1.8

You're reading from   FreeSWITCH 1.8 Get to grips with VoIP and WebRTC communication and quickly build robust telephony systems with FreeSWITCH

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889134
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anthony Minessale II Anthony Minessale II
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Giovanni Maruzzelli Giovanni Maruzzelli
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Preface 1. Architecture of FreeSWITCH FREE CHAPTER 2. Building and Installation 3. Test Driving the Example Configuration 4. User Directory, SIP, and Verto 5. WebRTC, SIP, and Verto 6. XML Dialplan 7. Phrase Macros and XML IVRs 8. Lua FreeSWITCH Scripting 9. Dialplan in Deep 10. Dialplan, Directory, and ALL via XML_CURL and Scripts 11. ESL - FreeSWITCH Controlled by Events 12. HTTAPI - FreeSWITCH Asks Webserver Next Action 13. Conferencing and WebRTC Video-Conferencing 14. Handling NAT 15. VoIP Security 16. Troubleshooting, Asking for Help, and Reporting Bugs

Lua XML handler

Exactly in the same vein as mod_xml_curl, you can have FreeSWITCH retrieve its XML configuration snippets by executing a script in one of the supported scripting languages.

You must first configure the scripting language module, in this case mod_lua, to handle XML lookup requests for a class of XML snippets.

Then you create a script that sets a variable named XML_STRING, containing the XML snippet.

That's it. Because lua is embedded in FreeSWITCH (as python and perl) there is no need for anything else.

You would connect to databases, webservers, do your data massaging, and so on from the script itself. The script is just supposed to return a string containing the XML snippet. With any means necessary.

This example Lua script can be configured as xml-handler-script, it sets the variable XML_STRING to the XML document FreeSWITCH is looking for:

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