[resolved] variable not being passed

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

I have a macro for standard extensions that gets called with 2 arguments; the extension and a variable that is set to the technology/number. A snip of this is shown below. The calls do not complete

This is what i see on the console:

– Executing Macro(“SIP/x.x.x.x-09778998”, “stdext|9999999999|”) in new stack

I get the following warning on the console as well:

Jul 27 11:15:11 WARNING[5000]: app_dial.c:803 dial_exec_full: Dial requires an argument (technology/number)

As you can see, the variable is not being interpreted and a blank is being sent. If I call the macro with the SIP/9999999999 as the 2nd argument, it works just fine. There’s something about the variable that isn’t working. Any help would be appreciated.

[TEST]
BRUCE=SIP/9999999999
exten => 9999999999,1,Macro(stdext,${EXTEN},${BRUCE})

[macro-stdext]
;ARG1 is the extension number
;ARG2 is the device
exten => s,1,Dial(${ARG2},20)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u${ARG1})
;exten => s,3,MusicOnHold(default)
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b${ARG1})
exten => s,103,Hangup

2

if Yopu want global variable BRUCE, You should declare it in [general] section, not in [test] context.
if variable doesn’t exist You can’t pass it to macro.
You can also try
exten => 9999,1,Set(BRUCE=9999)
exten => 9999,2,Macro(stdext,${EXTEN},${BRUCE})

3

I tried declaring the variable BRUCE in the [general] section with the same result. I do not want to set the variable in the context for the caller. Eventually the variable will be read in from a database, so i want this to be data driven, not hard-coded.

4

it’s looks taht You have some errors in variable declaration.
i create extensions.conf :

[general]
static=yes
writeprotect=no
[globals]
BRUCE=SIP/103
[macro-stdext]
exten => s,1,Dial(${ARG1},20)
exten => s,n,Dial(SIP/${ARG2},10)
exten => s,n,Hangup
[sip]
exten => 9999999999,1,noop(------ ${BRUCE} ---- ${EXTEN}  ---)
exten => 9999999999,n,macro(stdext,${BRUCE},${EXTEN})

it’s good enough for testing variables passing
i have only one 103 SIP number
CLI> output

MtG*CLI>
    -- Executing NoOp("SIP/103-08170a58", "------ SIP/103 ---- 9999999999  ---") in new stack
    -- Executing Macro("SIP/103-08170a58", "stdext|SIP/103|9999999999") in new stack
    -- Executing Dial("SIP/103-08170a58", "SIP/103|20") in new stack
    -- Called 103
    -- SIP/103-0817b778 is ringing
    -- Nobody picked up in 20000 ms
    -- Executing Dial("SIP/103-08170a58", "SIP/9999999999|10") in new stack
Jul 27 21:29:56 WARNING[19171]: chan_sip.c:1980 create_addr: No such host: 9999999999
Jul 27 21:29:56 NOTICE[19171]: app_dial.c:1049 dial_exec_full: Unable to create channel of type 'SIP' (cause 3 - No route to destination)
  == Everyone is busy/congested at this time (1:0/0/1)
    -- Executing Hangup("SIP/103-08170a58", "") in new stack
  == Spawn extension (macro-stdext, s, 3) exited non-zero on 'SIP/103-08170a58' in macro 'stdext'
  == Spawn extension (macro-stdext, s, 3) exited non-zero on 'SIP/103-08170a58'

variables are passing correctly. check up variables declaration in dialplan

5

I fixed this by declaring the variables in the [globals] section.

Thanks for the help.