I'm experimenting with the ARI interface in Asterisk (v15.5). I've managed to placing and manage outbound calls relatively well, and I'm now trying to tackle inbound calls.
I don't have any dialplan to speak of on my test server; it hasn't been needed: I just connect via ARI, Originate channels, and bridge them together. However, trying to send an inbound call to the server gives me an error
chan_sip.c:26513 handle_request_invite: Call from 'upstreamserver' (192.168.x.x:5060) to extension '12345' rejected because extension not found in context 'default'.
Fair enough - Asterisk doesn't know about extension 12345 or what to do with it. I could, of course, add this into extensions.conf, put the extension into stasis and let my application deal with this: however, this has two downsides:
- We have potentially hundreds of inbound numbers, and we'd need to keep the dialplan up to date
- We'd like to have multiple ARI applications connecting to the server: it seems we need to specify a specific application name for each extension
Ideally, I'd like to use ARI to programatically tell Asterisk: hey Asterisk, I'm an ARI application, let me know if there's any calls for extension 12345, and I'll take care of those for you. Is there currently a way to do this, or is it back to editing the dialplan and pointing it to my app by hand?