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NAME

Telephony::Asterisk::AMI - Simple Asterisk Manager Interface client

VERSION

This document describes version 0.002 of Telephony::Asterisk::AMI, released November 7, 2015.

SYNOPSIS

use Telephony::Asterisk::AMI ();

my $ami = Telephony::Asterisk::AMI->new(
  Username => 'user',
  Secret => 'password',
);

$ami->connect or die $ami->error;

my $response = $ami->action(Action => 'Ping');

$ami->disconnect or die $ami->error;

DESCRIPTION

Telephony::Asterisk::AMI is a simple client for the Asterisk Manager Interface. It's better documented and less buggy than Asterisk::Manager, and has fewer prerequisites than Asterisk::AMI. It uses IO::Socket::IP, so it should support either IPv4 or IPv6.

If you need a more sophisticated client (especially for use in an event-driven program), try Asterisk::AMI.

METHODS

new

$ami = Telephony::Asterisk::AMI->new(%args);

Constructs a new $ami object. The %args may be passed as a hashref or a list of key => value pairs.

This does not do any network communication; you must call "connect" to open the connection before doing anything else.

The parameters are:

Username

The AMI username to use when logging in. (required)

Secret

The AMI secret (password) to use when logging in. (required)

Host

The hostname to connect to. You can also specify hostname:port as a single string. (default: localhost).

Port

The port number to connect to (if no port was specified with Host). (default: 5038)

ActionID

The ActionID to start at. Each call to "action" increments the ActionID. (Note: The "connect" method also consumes an ActionID for the implicit Login action.) (default: 1)

Debug

If set to a true value, sets Debug_FH to STDERR (unless it was already set to a different value). (default: false)

Debug_FH

A filehandle to write a transcript of the communications to. Lines sent to Asterisk are prefixed with >>, and lines received from Asterisk are prefixed with <<. (default: no transcript)

Event_Callback

A coderef that is called when an event is received from Asterisk. The event data is passed as a hashref, just like the return value of the action method. Events are only received while waiting for a response to an action. You MUST NOT call any methods on $ami from inside the callback. (default: events are ignored)

The constructor throws an exception if a required parameter is omitted.

connect

$success = $ami->connect;

Opens the connection to Asterisk and logs in. $success is true if the login was successful, or undef on error. On failure, you can get the error message with $ami->error.

disconnect

$success = $ami->disconnect;

Logs off of Asterisk and closes the connection. $success is true if the logoff was successful, or undef on error. On failure, you can get the error message with $ami->error.

After a successful call to disconnect, you may call connect again to reestablish the connection.

action

$response = $ami->action(%args);

Sends an action request to Asterisk and returns the response. The %args may be passed as a hashref or a list of key => value pairs, where the keys are the Asterisk field names. To create more than one instance of a field, make the value an arrayref.

The only required key is Action. (Asterisk may require other keys depending on the value of Action, but that is not enforced by this module.)

The $response is a hashref formed from Asterisk's response in the same format as %args. It will have a Response key whose value is either Success or Error.

If you have not called the connect method (or it failed), calling action will return a manufactured Error response with Message "Not connected to Asterisk!".

If communication with Asterisk fails, it will return a manufactured Error response with Message "Writing to socket failed: %s" or "Reading from socket failed: %s". In this case, $ami->error will also be set.

error

$error_message = $ami->error;

If communication with Asterisk fails, this method will return an error message describing the problem.

If Asterisk returns "Response: Error" for some action, that does not set $ami->error. The one exception is the automatic Login action performed by the "connect" method, which does set error on failure.

It returns undef if there has been no communication error.

SEE ALSO

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Home

Asterisk::AMI is a more sophisticated AMI client better suited for event-driven programs.

DIAGNOSTICS

Required parameter %s not defined

You omitted a required parameter from a method call.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Telephony::Asterisk::AMI requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Telephony::Asterisk::AMI depends on IO::Socket::IP, which became a core module with Perl 5.20. There are no other non-core dependencies.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHOR

Christopher J. Madsen <perl AT cjmweb.net>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <bug-Telephony-Asterisk-AMI AT rt.cpan.org> or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Telephony-Asterisk-AMI.

You can follow or contribute to Telephony-Asterisk-AMI's development at https://github.com/madsen/Telephony-Asterisk-AMI.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Christopher J. Madsen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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