ARI: Fix implicit answer when playback is initiated on unanswered channel

When issuing a POST /channels/{channel_id}/play on a channel that is not
yet answered, ARI is supposed to:
* Queue up an AST_CONTROL_PROGRESS on the channel
* Start up the playback of the media

Instead, we sneak an answer on the channel right before starting playing media.

This is due to ARI's usage of control_streamfile. This function implicitly
answers the channel (and doesn't give ARI the option to stop it). The answering
of the channel here is probably unnecessary:
* app_voicemail, by far the biggest consumer of this function, always answers
  the channels anyway
* control stream file (in res_agi) and ControlPlayback probably shouldn't be
  implicitly answering the channel. Answering should not be tied directly to
  playing back media.

As it turns out, the answering of the channel here is pretty old:
356042    twilson       if (ast_channel_state(chan) != AST_STATE_UP) {
  3087      anthm               res = ast_answer(chan);
180259   tilghman       }

(As in, ancient?)

Note that others ran into this problem and commented about it on various
mailing lists.

Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3907/

ASTERISK-24229 #close
Reported by: Matt Jordan
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diff --git a/UPGRADE-13.txt b/UPGRADE-13.txt
index bc61ab654841cfd5321b47105f9e0951f393db21..0599755aa7ca700194b2e9d6b692f1aa4dbc2426 100644 (file)
--- a/UPGRADE-13.txt
+++ b/UPGRADE-13.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ ConfBridge:
   new method to achieve this functionality is by using sound_begin to play
   a sound to the conference when waitmarked users are moved into the conference.
 
+ControlPlayback:
+ - The ControlPlayback and 'control stream file' AGI command will no longer
+   implicitly answer the channel. If you do not answer the channel prior to
+   using either this application or AGI command, you must send Progress
+   first.
+
 Queue:
  - Queue rules provided in queuerules.conf can no longer be named "general".
 

diff --git a/main/app.c b/main/app.c
index 89f5f77c1711678577d369ad31629664c3608e3d..82237479cb0c0b4a36439bd92dc0ab77d9629d4a 100644 (file)
--- a/main/app.c
+++ b/main/app.c
@@ -1046,9 +1046,6 @@ static int control_streamfile(struct ast_channel *chan,
                        strcat(breaks, restart);
                }
        }
-       if (ast_channel_state(chan) != AST_STATE_UP) {
-               res = ast_answer(chan);
-       }
 
        if ((end = strchr(file, ':'))) {
                if (!strcasecmp(end, ":end")) {