Blacklist numbers for outbound calling

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Hi,

I’m trying to Add numbers in Blacklist so that whenever someone tries to call that number, it doesn’t allow it

I’ve tried the following but doesn’t work

exten => s,1,GotoIf(${DB_EXISTS(BLACKLIST/${EXTEN})}?banned,s,1)

[banned]
exten => s,1,Playback(silence/2&im-sorry)
exten => s,n,Playback(cannot-complete-as-dialed)
exten => s,n,Playback(privacy-you-are-blacklisted)
exten => s,n,Playback(goodbye)
exten => s,n,Hangup()

have inserted the number in blacklist using

database put blacklist 12345678900 "Blacklisted for testing"

2

You should use $[]? and you are using ${}? Curly brackets are for variables.

3

oh okay…I’ll try that

4

Can you please be more precise where I should use $[]? Because in all examples I’ve gone through uses ${}

Also curly brackets { } are general repetition quantifiers. They specify a minimum and maximum number of permitted matches. And here I’m matching ‘DB_EXISTS’ and ‘EXTEN’

5

task completed

in dialplan
exten => _XXXX.,n,Macro(blacklist,${EXTEN})

[macro-blacklist]
exten => s,1,GotoIf(${DB_EXISTS(blacklist/${ARG1})}?banned)

[banned]
exten => s,1,Playback(silence/2&im-sorry)
exten => s,n,Hangup()

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Expressions are combinations of variables, operators, and values that you string together to produce a result. An expression can test values, alter strings, or perform mathematical calculations.

Everything contained inside a bracket pair prefixed by a $ (like $[this]) is considered as an expression and it is evaluated.

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

http://www.asteriskdocs.org/en/2nd_Edition/asterisk-book-html-chunk/asterisk-CHP-6-SECT-1.html

7

Your extension ‘s’ won’t match 12345678900.

Your extension would have to be 12345678900.

8

It is going to [banned] when ever someone dials a number in blacklist…it is matching the number in blacklist

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9

He is using macro, The macro works only using the s extension, he passing the number to check using the macro argument so it will works fine

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I didn’t see his later post where he had a Macro, in his initial post he was using ${EXTEN} in a ‘s’ extension which would have had the value of ‘s’.