ARI能力 将channel创建和拨号分开

ARI: Create, Bridge, Dial

much more flexibility is provided by splitting the operation in two parts: channel creation and channel dialing.

POST /channels/create

As you might imagine, the create operation will create an outgoing channel; but, unlike the regular originate operation, the channel will be immediately placed into your ARI application, without being dialed. While in the ARI application, you can perform operations on it that logically make sense. Any that don’t will respond with an error – don’t try to play a sound file to it, it hasn’t been dialed yet, silly. If your outgoing channel is the result of an incoming channel, you may want to connect the two in a bridge in case the outgoing channel provides progress in the form of media – inband ringing, or a friendly phrase saying the call could not be connected.

The operation takes a very slimmed down list of arguments in comparison to the origination one; just those required to create an outgoing channel and location information, nothing more. In fact, arguments controlling variables or caller ID are not present, as these should be set using the variable operation before dialing. You might also notice that you can not send created channels to the dialplan. This is because the dialplan, and dialplan applications, were not written to take into account created, but un-dialed channels, and thus do not support them. You can only send a created channel to an ARI application.

POST /channels/{channelId}/dial

Once a channel has been created and you have performed any operations you want on it, you can actually perform the dial operation by calling “dial” on it. Dial places the actual outgoing call and you will receive events as they occur.

应用场景:

Early Bridging

The act of placing channels into a bridge before one has answered is referred to as “early bridging”. The bridging functionality in Asterisk has been changed to transparently, without any effort on your part, handle this case and do “the right thing.” You need only use the same operations that you would have used previously on answered channels to add them to the bridge.

A common scenario would be the following:

1. Create an outgoing channel
2. Set variables and callerid on the outgoing channel
3. Create a bridge
4. Add the calling channel to the bridge
5. Add the outgoing channel to the bridge
6. Dial the outgoing channel

This mirrors that of Asterisk’s Dial() application and ensures that any early media is conveyed. Building on this as a base allow you to implement many of the features of app_dial or even create new ones more easily.