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[anthony.minessale at g...]

Sort of silly?,

I am not sure what you are talking about.
I
t's called *event*Consumer right? what do you mean by event based?

There is no need to create a session?

con = freeswitch.EventConsumer("all");

now you have a consumer obj

every time you call con:pop() with no arg you will either get an event or nil when there are no events to consume.
every time you call con:pop(1) the consumer object will block until there is an event.

So you use the first way in conjunction with some other lock to do async or the 2nd way you do a dedicated blocking loop.

I don't know what you said in #lua but, umm duhhhh I think we have an event driven programming under control.....
We have a dedicated eventing engine in the core with scaling backend dispatcher threads that can handle hundereds of thousand
of events at a time.

There is also Event Socket (the word *event* again) that can connect to tcp and listen for *events*

you can also write your code in C with the trivial module API that allows you to bind to an event internally and pretty much do whatever you want.



2009/3/27 Matthew Fong <mattdfong@gmail.com (mattdfong@gmail.com)>

[msc at freeswitch.org]

[mattdfong at gmail.com]

Got a few more questions about running LUA scripts, please forgive me, I'm an absolute newbie with LUA.

If I want to subscribe to a custom event, and I use


con = freeswitch.EventConsumer("CUSTOM my::event");


I get an error. Is this because I must subscribe to the CUSTOM (only) event, and then filter out the events using the Event-Subclass myself? Or am I missing something in the syntax of the subscribe?


Also, if I do not have a freeswitch.Session, what is the best way to have my LUA script sleep? I want a functionality, where a statement inside my LUA script gets iterated every 30 seconds. My program does not use a session, so I cannot use session:execute("sleep","1000"), as suggested in the wiki. I tried api::sleep(30000) and a few other combinations with execute but no luck . 


Thanks.
--matt

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org (msc@freeswitch.org)> wrote:

[mattdfong at gmail.com]

I know before I asked about blocking for an event, and maybe I should have created a new topic..

but now I want to actually sleep (rather than block) for a set time frame...this app will not be consuming events.


can I get an example of how to use msleep in a lua script? This lua script will be running in the background, and not part of a session or event consumer. Thanks.


--matt

2009/3/31 Michael Jerris <mike@jerris.com (mike@jerris.com)>

[mattdfong at gmail.com]

Thanks, the freeswitch.msleep(5000) works!

Any comment about the first Q...


con = freeswitch.EventConsumer("CUSTOM my::event");


I get an error. Is this because I must subscribe to the CUSTOM (only) event, and then filter out the events using the Event-Subclass myself? Or am I missing something in the syntax of the subscribe?



Thanks Michael for your help...


--matt

2009/3/31 Brian West <brian@freeswitch.org (brian@freeswitch.org)>

[msc at freeswitch.org]

FYI, I've documented the msleep method here:
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_lua#freeswitch.msleep

I will work on better and more organized API documentation. If anyone out there has time/energy/knowledge of the scripting APIs and is willing to help out please email me off list.

-MC

2009/3/31 Brian West <brian@freeswitch.org (brian@freeswitch.org)>