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NAME

Net::SIP::Dispatcher - dispatch SIP packets between legs and endpoint

SYNOPSIS

  my $disp = Net::SIP::Dispatcher->new( ... );
  $disp->deliver( $request );

DESCRIPTION

This module dispatches Net::SIP::Packets between Net::SIP::Legs and endpoints like Net::SIP::Endpoint, Net::SIP::Registrar and Net::SIP::StatelessProxy.

It manages retransmission of outgoing packets and redelivery of responses to incoming requests.

It is asssociated with an event handling like Net::SIP::Dispatcher::Eventloop.

CONSTRUCTOR

new ( \@LEGS, EVENTLOOP, %ARGS )

Creates a new dispatcher object.

@LEGS is a list of legs or specification for legs. See add_leg for possible formats.

EVENTLOOP is a eventloop which provides handling of events on file descriptors and timers. If not given a new Net::SIP::Dispatcher::Eventloop object will be created and used. See there how to define your own event loop package.

%ARGS are parameters for the behavior of the dispatcher:

outgoing_proxy

Specifies "ip:port" of outgoing proxy, e.g the proxy which will be used for all outgoing packets.

If no leg but an outgoing proxy is specified a leg will be created which can reach the outgoing proxy by udp.

do_retransmits

If TRUE retransmits will be done accoring to RFC3261. If FALSE no retransmits will be done, which is used in the case of stateless proxies. Defaults to TRUE.

This is the default for the delivery and can be overwritten in sub deliver.

domain2proxy

Optional mapping between target SIP domain and proxy to use. This is usually a hash of ( domain, "ip_proxy:port_proxy" ) pairs. Special domain '*' can be used to specify a fallback. See sub deliver for more details.

The constructor will create a timer using the eventloop which will regularly (each second) call queue_expire.

METHODS

set_receiver ( ENDPOINT )

This sets ENDPOINT as a receiver for incoming packets. ENDPOINT is an object with a method receive or a callback usable by invoke_callback in Net::SIP::Util.

add_leg ( LEG )

Adds LEG as a leg to the dispatcher $self. LEG can be either a Net::SIP::Leg object, a IO::Handle or a hash reference which is usable in the constructor of Net::SIP::Leg.

The leg will be added to the dispatchers eventloop for receiving incoming packets.

remove_leg ( LEG )

Removes Net::SIP::Leg object LEG from the dispatcher.

get_legs ( %ARGS )

Get a list of all Net::SIP::Leg objects matching the criteria given by %ARGS. %ARGS can be a combination of:

addr

Matches if given address matches the legs source address.

port

Matches if given port matches the legs source port.

proto

Matches if given proto ('udp','tcp') matches the legs protocol.

sock

Matches if the given IO::Handle is used as the socket in the leg.

sub

Call given sub with the Net::SIP::Leg as argument. Matches if the sub returns TRUE.

The leg matches %ARGS if the all conditions specified in %ARGS match.

add_timer ( WHEN, CALLBACK, [ REPEAT ] )

Adds a timer using the eventloop.

WHEN is either an absolute or a relative time (what it is will be decided based on the value of WHEN). Absolute times will be specified in time_t (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00) and relative time will be specified in seconds. WHEN can be floating point to specifiy subseconds. WHEN can be 0 to trigger the timer immediatly.

CALLBACK is a callback usable by invoke_callback in Net::SIP::Util.

REPEAT is the optional repeat interval for the timer.

deliver ( PACKET, %ARGS )

Delivers Net::SIP::Packet PACKET. %ARGS can speciffy hints for delivery:

id

ID for packet, used in cancel_delivery. If not given the transaction ID of PACKET given by method tid will be used.

callback

callback which will be called on definite delivery of packet (only possible for TCP) or on definite failure. Callback will be invoked using invoke_callback from Net::SIP::Util with the additional argument of $!. See sub deliver in Net::SIP::Leg.

leg

Specifies outgoing Net::SIP::Leg object. For responses created by the endpoint the outgoing leg is usually known, because it's the same as the incoming leg for the request.

dst_addr

"ip:port" where to deliver the packet. This is necessary for responses, for requests it can be find out based on the requests URI.

do_retransmits

Specifies if retransmits should be done according to RFC3261. This is usually the case, except for stateless proxies. Overwrites the global parameter with the same name from the constructor for the delivery of the specific packet.

Delivery of the packet itself will be handled in multiple steps (in the code done mainly by sub __deliver:

  • If a leg is specified it will be used for delivery. dst_addr needs to be specified in this case too. This is usually the case for locally generated responses.

  • Otherwise the global outgoing proxy will be used if specified.

  • If dst_addr is not given needs to be computed from the URI. Naturally this works only for requests. See sub __resolve_uri in the source code.

    If the URI contains an IP address this will be used.

    If domain2proxy was given in the constructor it will be used to lookup an outgoing proxy. If SIP domain for outgoing request is not in the mapping but an upper domain is in the mapping then this entry will be used.

    If no outgoing proxy could be found it will be looked up using a partial implementation of RFC3263, e.g. DNS SRV records will be used (but not DNS NAPTR records).

  • The outgoing leg will be computed based on dst_addr. This will be done in sub __find_leg4addr by going through all legs and checking, if the leg could deliver to this address by calling can_deliver_to on the leg (see Net::SIP::Leg).

If the packets could be retransmitted appropriate setups will be done. Retransmission will be done until final failure or until cancel_delivery will be called for the packet, which usually means, that the packet was successfully delivered because a response to the packet was received.

cancel_delivery ( ID )

Cancels retransmission of packet with id ID. Called from endpoint if response to packet came in, which means that the packet was successfully delivered.

receive ( PACKET, LEG, FROM )

Called from the eventloop (e.g was setup as a callback) for incoming packets. The new Net::SIP::Packet is PACKET, LEG is the Net::SIP::Leg where the packet came in and FROM is "ip:port" of the sender.

queue_expire ( [ NOW ] )

Expires retransmission queue, e.g. deletes packet where retransmissions failed permanently (and calls appropriate callbacks) and initiates pending retransmissions. Called from a timer setup in the constructor.