Asterisk PBX configuration syntax checker
Project description
Asterisklint is a suite of tools to check syntax of your Asterisk PBX configuration files.
Alright, enough talking. Some examples please.
Invocation
$ asterisklint
usage: asterisklint [-h] COMMAND
asterisklint: error: the following arguments are required: COMMAND
$ asterisklint ls
builtin:
ls List available commands.
/usr/lib/python/dist-packages:
dialplan-check Do sanity checks on dialplan. Takes 'extensions.conf'
as argument. Suppress error classes using ALINT_IGNORE.
dialplan-show Show dialplan like Asterisk does with CLI command
"dialplan show". Takes 'extensions.conf' as argument.
modules-show Show which modules, apps and functions are used by the
dialplan. Takes 'extensions.conf' as argument.
Place custom commands in ~/.asterisklint/asterisklint/commands.
Take this little dialplan snippet, that we’ll call extensions.conf:
[default] exten => _8[2-9]x,1,NoOp same => n,GoSub(somewhere,s,1(argument1,argument2) same => n,Payback(audiofile)
Now run the dialplan-check command on it:
$ ALINT_IGNORE=H_DP_ asterisklint dialplan-check extensions.conf
extensions.conf:2 H_PAT_NON_CANONICAL: pattern '_8[2-9]x' is not in the canonical form '_8NX'
extensions.conf:3 W_APP_BAD_CASE: app 'GoSub' does not have the proper Case 'Gosub'
extensions.conf:3 W_APP_BALANCE: app data 'somewhere,1,s(argument1,argument2' looks like unbalanced parentheses/quotes/curlies
extensions.conf:4 E_APP_MISSING: app 'Payback' does not exist, dialplan will halt here!
It had a lot to complain about that little snippet. But it was right. We even suppressed two hints about a missing [general] and [global] context using ALINT_IGNORE.
Not everything it checks is documented, and it does not check everything that we like yet. But it’s a start. Bug reports are welcome. Feature requests prefer to be accompanied by a patch :-)
Try out modules-show if you use autoload=no in your modules.conf.
All commands show help if asked:
$ asterisklint modules-show --help
usage: asterisklint modules-show [-h] EXTENSIONS_CONF
Show which modules, apps and functions are used by the dialplan. Useful when
you use autoload=no in your modules.conf. Beware that you do need more modules
than just these listed.
positional arguments:
EXTENSIONS_CONF path to extensions.conf
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Installation
Installation is a matter of python3 setup.py install. Or, for more convenience, install a PyPI uploaded version through pip3(1):
$ sudo pip3 install asterisklint
...
Successfully installed asterisklint
The dialplan-check comes in handy as a git commit hook, for example .git/hooks/pre-commit:
#!/bin/sh
export ALINT_IGNORE= # adjust as needed
asterisklint dialplan-check PATH/TO/extensions.conf
ret=$?
if test $ret -ne 0; then
echo >&2
echo 'One or more dialplan syntax errors. Please fix before committing.' >&2
exit $ret
fi
exit 0
TODO
Func_odbc parsing improvements: - check for missing synopsis/syntax (compare syntax to ARGn count) - check for correct usage of VAL (write only) and ARG and missing SQL_ESC - yield the odbc functions instead of contexts like it does now (See more in func_odbc.py.)
Improve documentation as needed.
Expression parsing.
Function argument parsing.
Recursive includes probably make asterisklint run out of stack.
Goto/Gosub-visiting to check for missing contexts/destinations/prios/labels.
Add app-check command to do dialplan checks of individual lines.
Add expr-check command to do expression ($[...]) checks.
Allow multiline variables using += (key=val; key+=more-val).
Add python2 support so you can include checks from your own project? Or not?
Before 1.0, start adding versioning – including semver – so users can depend on a stable API from their custom scripts. Also version the scripts (commands) so they won’t talk to older/newer libs if that poses a problem.
BUGS
The library is very much in flux. Don’t expect it to stabilize any time soon. Pay attention to versions!
Multiline comments (;-- ... --;) are unsupported. Does anyone use those?
Limits aren’t checked (dialplan lines are limited at 255 or 8191 bytes for LOW_MEMORY and normal mode respectively).
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