Chapter 9. Asterisk Component

Available as of Camel version 2.18

The asterisk: component allows you to work easily with an Asterisk PBX Server http://www.asterisk.org/ using asterisk-java

This component help to interface with Asterisk Manager Interface

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-asterisk</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

9.1. URI format

asterisk:name[?options]

9.2. Options

The Asterisk component has no options.

The Asterisk endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

asterisk:name

with the following path and query parameters:

9.2.1. Path Parameters (1 parameters):

NameDescriptionDefaultType

name

Required Logical name

 

String

9.2.2. Query Parameters (8 parameters):

NameDescriptionDefaultType

hostname (common)

Required The hostname of the asterisk server

 

String

password (common)

Required Login password

 

String

username (common)

Required Login username

 

String

bridgeErrorHandler (consumer)

Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

false

boolean

exceptionHandler (consumer)

To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this options is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

 

ExceptionHandler

exchangePattern (consumer)

Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.

 

ExchangePattern

action (producer)

What action to perform such as getting queue status, sip peers or extension state.

 

AsteriskAction

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

9.3. Action

Supported actions are:

  • QUEUE_STATUS, Queue Status
  • SIP_PEERS, List SIP Peers
  • EXTENSION_STATE, Check Extension Status