go-ari-proxy

WARNING

This repository is archived but remains here for reference. Feel free to fork and continue using this if it fits your system. Unfortunately all developers are no longer directly involved in the development of this code, and don't have time to maintain it adequately.

We still believe the architecture is sound, but this repository is no longer kept up to date with the latest Asterisk ARI development.

An implementation of the [go-ari-library][1] used to connect to the Asterisk REST Interface for delivery of Events and Commands across a message bus.

• publishes Events from ARI websocket to a remote client via message bus
• consumes Commands from a client using a message bus and POSTs them to Asterisk
• publishes Command responses back onto the message bus for the client

Overview

The go-ari-proxy is an application that makes it easier to build external applications for the Asterisk REST Interface (ARI). Primarily, we wrap the ARI messages in a structure that can be easily disseminated and sent across a message bus using json. From there, the application can decapsulate the message, act on the ARI portion, and send back a response in a similar manner.

Installation

$ cd $GOPATH/src
$ go get github.com/nvisibleinc/go-ari-library
$ git clone https://github.com/nvisibleinc/go-ari-proxy
$ go install go-ari-proxy

Configuration

Add a config.json file to your directory you're running the application from.

{
    "origin": "http://foo.com",
    "server_id": "bar",
    "applications": [
        "foo"
    ],
    "websocket_url": "ws://localhost:8080/ari/events",
    "stasis_url": "http://localhost:8080/ari",
    "ws_user": "user",
    "ws_password": "secret",
    "message_bus": "RABBITMQ|NATS",
    "bus_config": {
        "url": "",
        "queue": ""
    }
}

• origin - A HTTP URI of the Origin (it would normally be sent from a browser)
• server_id - Unique server identity
• applications - Array of ARI applications to listen for
• websocket_url - Websocket URL to connect to
• stasis_url - Base URL of ARI REST API
• ws_user - username of websocket/API connection
• ws_password - password of websocket/API connection
• message_bus - Type of message bus to use. Options are RABBITMQ and NATS
• bus_config - An Object containing config for the message bus
  • url - URI of the message bus
  • queue - An option only for NATS, which queue to connect to

Docker Container

TODO

How It Works

The go-ari-proxy application works by using a message bus (NATS, RabbitMQ) and having a broadcast channel (topic, queue) that applications listen to. When a StasisStart is recieved by the proxy, we perform an AppStart which broadcasts this information.

The message bus then distributes this to an application listening on the topic. From there, the application knows what topic to subscribe to in order to continue the conversation. Currently this setup channel is unidirectional, however in the future it may be further enhanced/designed to allow for applications to acknowledge setup of a dialog.

The primary purpose of the broadcast channel is to distribute to one or more application instances, and then a dialog is created over three (3) additional topics. These topics are: Events, Commands, and CommandResponses.

NOTE: Prior revisions of the go-ari-library upon which this proxy is built had support for the NSQ message bus. Unfortunately, as a result of the eventually consistent semantics of NSQ's topic discovery mechanism, its use is no longer supported and the code was removed.

Application topic

1. proxy starts up and connects to the websocket
2. proxy connects to the signalling topic, named for the application (configured via JSON)
3. applications connect to same signalling topic based on their configuration
4. the message bus distributes messages in a round-robin fashion to application (message bus dependent)

Dialog topic

1. on StasisStart event, the proxy creates a new ProxyInstance, creating a unique dialogID, and connect to three new topics
2. On new dialog setup, the proxy sends a new AppStart event across the signalling channel to tell the application which topics to listen for Events, to send Commands, and to listen for Command Responses.

Application topic distribution

Licensing

Copyright 2015-2016 N-Visible Technology Lab, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.