Question

I’m developing a sort of Flash Operator Pannel for Asterisk but, with Node.js and Socket.io instead of depending of Flash.

I’ve polished the node server and the front end BUT I don’t know how could I send events from Asterisk to node server and do things that will be sended over the socket.

Given the fact that we have a heavily tuned Asterisk to suit our company needs, connecting to the AMI nor the Asterisk socket will solve my problem because we aren’t working with real extensions.

So, despite the Asterisk part, I want to know how could I send info to node through bash or curls or whatever

I thought about using curls to the server but this could cause that someone who knows the commands (pretty unlikely) could alter the application flow with unreal data.

EDIT: Rethinking about it, I would just want to be able to receive requests through the socket/server ??? and then be able to perform actions that will be emited through socket.io.

Is that even possible?

Answer 1

The answer really depends upon what specific data you are trying to get from Asterisk to Node. You’re trying to replace the Flash Operator Panel, yet you don’t have real extensions. I’m guessing that you are using Asterisk as an SBC/proxy of sorts.

If you truly want an event-driven approach, I suggest modifying your dialplan to reach out to Node whenever needed, with whatever data you want. This would most easily be achieved by calling an AGI script with some number of arguments (written in whatever language) that then connects to Node via an HTTP POST, socket, or other.

If you want a more passive approach, you could have Node stream-read the asterisk log files for data, or, as already suggested, connect to the Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) and stream from there. Contrary to what has been stated previously, I don’t consider this to be a very daunting task.