clue/reactphp-ami

Streaming, event-driven access to the Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI), built on top of ReactPHP.

The Asterisk PBX is a popular open source telephony solution that offers a wide range of telephony features. The Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) allows you to control and monitor the PBX. Among others, it can be used to originate a new call, execute Asterisk commands or monitor the status of subscribers, channels or queues.

• Async execution of Actions - Send any number of actions (commands) to the Asterisk service in parallel and process their responses as soon as results come in. The Promise-based design provides a sane interface to working with out of order responses.
• Event-driven core - Register your event handler callbacks to react to incoming events, such as an incoming call or a change in a subscriber state.
• Lightweight, SOLID design - Provides a thin abstraction that is just good enough and does not get in your way. Future or custom actions and events require no changes to be supported.
• Good test coverage - Comes with an automated tests suite and is regularly tested in the real world against current Asterisk versions and versions as old as Asterisk 1.8.

Table of contents

• Support us
• Quickstart example
• Usage
  • Factory
    • createClient()
  • Client
    • close()
    • end()
    • createAction()
    • request()
    • event event
    • error event
    • close event
  • ActionSender
    • Actions
    • Promises
    • Blocking
  • Message
    • getFieldValue()
    • getFieldValues()
    • getFieldVariables()
    • getFields()
    • getActionId()
  • Response
    • getCommandOutput()
  • Collection
    • getEntryEvents()
    • getCompleteEvent()
  • Action
    • getMessageSerialized()
  • Event
    • getName()
• Install
• Tests
• License

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Quickstart example

Once installed, you can use the following code to access your local Asterisk instance and issue some simple commands via AMI:

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$factory = new Clue\React\Ami\Factory();

$factory->createClient('user:secret@localhost')->then(function (Clue\React\Ami\Client $client) {
    echo 'Client connected' . PHP_EOL;

    $sender = new Clue\React\Ami\ActionSender($client);
    $sender->listCommands()->then(function (Clue\React\Ami\Protocol\Response $response) {
        echo 'Available commands:' . PHP_EOL;
        var_dump($response);
    });
});

See also the examples.

Usage

Factory

The Factory is responsible for creating your Client instance.

$factory = new Clue\React\Ami\Factory();

This class takes an optional LoopInterface|null $loop parameter that can be used to pass the event loop instance to use for this object. You can use a null value here in order to use the default loop. This value SHOULD NOT be given unless you're sure you want to explicitly use a given event loop instance.

If you need custom connector settings (DNS resolution, TLS parameters, timeouts, proxy servers etc.), you can explicitly pass a custom instance of the ConnectorInterface:

$connector = new React\Socket\Connector(array(
    'dns' => '127.0.0.1',
    'tcp' => array(
        'bindto' => '192.168.10.1:0'
    ),
    'tls' => array(
        'verify_peer' => false,
        'verify_peer_name' => false
    )
));

$factory = new Clue\React\Ami\Factory(null, $connector);

createClient()

The createClient(string $url): PromiseInterface<Client,Exception> method can be used to create a new Client.

It helps with establishing a plain TCP/IP or secure TLS connection to the AMI and optionally issuing an initial login action.

$factory->createClient($url)->then(
    function (Clue\React\Ami\Client $client) {
        // client connected (and authenticated)
    },
    function (Exception $e) {
        // an error occurred while trying to connect or authorize client
    }
);

The method returns a Promise that will resolve with the Client instance on success or will reject with an Exception if the URL is invalid or the connection or authentication fails.

The $url parameter contains the host and optional port (which defaults to 5038 for plain TCP/IP connections) to connect to:

$factory->createClient('localhost:5038');

The above example does not pass any authentication details, so you may have to call ActionSender::login() after connecting or use the recommended shortcut to pass a username and secret for your AMI login details like this:

$factory->createClient('user:secret@localhost');

Note that both the username and password must be URL-encoded (percent-encoded) if they contain special characters:

$user = 'he:llo';
$pass = 'p@ss';

$promise = $factory->createClient(
    rawurlencode($user) . ':' . rawurlencode($pass) . '@localhost'
);

The Factory defaults to establishing a plaintext TCP connection. If you want to create a secure TLS connection, you can use the tls scheme (which defaults to port 5039):

$factory->createClient('tls://user:secret@localhost:5039');

Client

The Client is responsible for exchanging messages with the Asterisk Manager Interface and keeps track of pending actions.

If you want to send outgoing actions, see below for the ActionSender class.

Besides defining a few methods, this interface also implements the EventEmitterInterface which allows you to react to certain events as documented below.

close()

The close(): void method can be used to force-close the AMI connection and reject all pending actions.

end()

The end(): void method can be used to soft-close the AMI connection once all pending actions are completed.

createAction()

The createAction(string $name, array $fields): Action method can be used to construct a custom AMI action.

This method is considered advanced usage and mostly used internally only. Creating Action objects, sending them via AMI and waiting for incoming Response objects is usually hidden behind the ActionSender interface.

If you happen to need a custom or otherwise unsupported action, you can also do so manually as follows. Consider filing a PR to add new actions to the ActionSender.

A unique value will be added to "ActionID" field automatically (needed to match the incoming responses).

$action = $client->createAction('Originate', array('Channel' => …));
$promise = $client->request($action);

request()

The request(Action $action): PromiseInterface<Response,Exception> method can be used to queue the given messages to be sent via AMI and wait for a Response object that matches the value of its "ActionID" field.

This method is considered advanced usage and mostly used internally only. Creating Action objects, sending them via AMI and waiting for incoming Response objects is usually hidden behind the ActionSender interface.

If you happen to need a custom or otherwise unsupported action, you can also do so manually as follows. Consider filing a PR to add new actions to the ActionSender.

$action = $client->createAction('Originate', array('Channel' => …));
$promise = $client->request($action);

event event

The event event (what a lovely name) will be emitted whenever AMI sends an event, such as a phone call that just started or ended and much more. The event receives a single Event argument describing the event instance.

$client->on('event', function (Clue\React\Ami\Protocol\Event $event) {
    // process an incoming AMI event (see below)
    var_dump($event->getName(), $event);
});

Event reporting can be turned on/off via AMI configuration and the events() action. The events() action can also be used to enable an "EventMask" to only report certain events as per the AMI documentation.

See also AMI Events documentation for more details about event types and their respective fields.

error event

The error event will be emitted once a fatal error occurs, such as when the client connection is lost or is invalid. The event receives a single Exception argument for the error instance.

$client->on('error', function (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage() . PHP_EOL;
});

This event will only be triggered for fatal errors and will be followed by closing the client connection. It is not to be confused with "soft" errors caused by invalid commands.

close event

The close event will be emitted once the client connection closes (terminates).

$client->on('close', function () {
    echo 'Connection closed' . PHP_EOL;
});

See also the close() method.

ActionSender

The ActionSender wraps a given Client instance to provide a simple way to execute common actions. This class represents the main interface to execute actions and wait for the corresponding responses.

$sender = new Clue\React\Ami\ActionSender($client);

Actions

All public methods resemble their respective AMI actions.

$sender->login($name, $pass);
$sender->logoff();
$sender->ping();
$sender->command($command);
$sender->events($eventMask);

$sender->coreShowChannels();
$sender->sipPeers();
$sender->agents();

// many more…

Listing all available actions is out of scope here, please refer to the class outline.

Note that using the ActionSender is not strictly necessary, but is the recommended way to execute common actions.

If you happen to need a custom or otherwise unsupported action, you can also do so manually. See the advanced createAction() usage above for details. Consider filing a PR to add new actions to the ActionSender.

Promises

Sending actions is async (non-blocking), so you can actually send multiple action requests in parallel. The AMI will respond to each action with a Response object. The order is not guaranteed. Sending actions uses a Promise-based interface that makes it easy to react to when an action is completed (i.e. either successfully fulfilled or rejected with an error):

$sender->ping()->then(
    function (Clue\React\Ami\Protocol\Response $response) {
        // response received for ping action
    },
    function (Exception $e) {
        // an error occurred while executing the action
        
        if ($e instanceof Clue\React\Ami\Protocol\ErrorException) {
            // we received a valid error response (such as authorization error)
            $response = $e->getResponse();
        } else {
            // we did not receive a valid response (likely a transport issue)
        }
    }
});

All actions resolve with a Response object on success, some actions are documented to return the specialized Collection object to contain a list of entries.

Blocking

As stated above, this library provides you a powerful, async API by default.

If, however, you want to integrate this into your traditional, blocking environment, you should look into also using clue/reactphp-block.

The resulting blocking code could look something like this:

use Clue\React\Block;
use React\EventLoop\Loop;

function getSipPeers()
{
    $factory = new Clue\React\Ami\Factory();

    $target = 'name:password@localhost';
    $promise = $factory->createClient($target)->then(function (Clue\React\Ami\Client $client) {
        $sender = new Clue\React\Ami\ActionSender($client);
        $ret = $sender->sipPeers()->then(function (Clue\React\Ami\Collection $collection) {
            return $collection->getEntryEvents();
        });
        $client->end();
        return $ret;
    });

    return Block\await($promise, Loop::get(), 5.0);
}

Refer to clue/reactphp-block for more details.

Message

The Message is an abstract base class for the Response, Action and Event value objects. It provides a common interface for these three message types.

Each Message consists of any number of fields with each having a name and one or multiple values. Field names are matched case-insensitive. The interpretation of values is application-specific.

getFieldValue()

The getFieldValue(string $key): ?string method can be used to get the first value for the given field key.

If no value was found, null is returned.

getFieldValues()

The getFieldValues(string $key): string[] method can be used to get a list of all values for the given field key.

If no value was found, an empty array() is returned.

getFieldVariables()

The getFieldVariables(string $key): array method can be used to get a hashmap of all variable assignments in the given $key.

If no value was found, an empty array() is returned.

getFields()

The getFields(): array method can be used to get an array of all fields.

getActionId()

The getActionId(): string method can be used to get the unique action ID of this message.

This is a shortcut to get the value of the "ActionID" field.

Response

The Response value object represents the incoming response received from the AMI. It shares all properties of the Message parent class.

getCommandOutput()

The getCommandOutput(): ?string method can be used to get the resulting output of a "command" Action. This value is only available if this is actually a response to a "command" action, otherwise it defaults to null.

$sender->command('help')->then(function (Clue\React\Ami\Protocol\Response $response) {
    echo $response->getCommandOutput();
});

Collection

The Collection value object represents an incoming response received from the AMI for certain actions that return a list of entries. It shares all properties of the Response parent class.

You can access the Collection like a normal Response in order to access the leading Response for this collection or you can use the below methods to access the list entries and completion event.

Action: CoreShowChannels

Response: Success
EventList: start
Message: Channels will follow

Event: CoreShowChannel
Channel: SIP / 123
ChannelState: 6
ChannelStateDesc: Up
…

Event: CoreShowChannel
Channel: SIP / 456
ChannelState: 6
ChannelStateDesc: Up
…

Event: CoreShowChannel
Channel: SIP / 789
ChannelState: 6
ChannelStateDesc: Up
…

Event: CoreShowChannelsComplete
EventList: Complete
ListItems: 3

getEntryEvents()

The getEntryEvents(): Event[] method can be used to get the list of all intermediary Event objects where each entry represents a single entry in the collection.

foreach ($collection->getEntryEvents() as $entry) {
    assert($entry instanceof Clue\React\Ami\Protocol\Event);
    echo $entry->getFieldValue('Channel') . PHP_EOL;
}

getCompleteEvent()

The getCompleteEvent(): Event method can be used to get the trailing Event that completes this collection.

echo $collection->getCompleteEvent()->getFieldValue('ListItems') . PHP_EOL;

Action

The Action value object represents an outgoing action message to be sent to the AMI. It shares all properties of the Message parent class.

getMessageSerialized()

The getMessageSerialized(): string method can be used to get the serialized version of this outgoing action to send to Asterisk.

This method is considered advanced usage and mostly used internally only.

Event

The Event value object represents the incoming event received from the AMI. It shares all properties of the Message parent class.

getName()

The getName(): ?string method can be used to get the name of the event.

This is a shortcut to get the value of the "Event" field.

Install

The recommended way to install this library is through Composer. New to Composer?

This project follows SemVer. This will install the latest supported version:

composer require clue/ami-react:^1.2

See also the CHANGELOG for details about version upgrades.

This project aims to run on any platform and thus does not require any PHP extensions and supports running on legacy PHP 5.3 through current PHP 8+. It's highly recommended to use the latest supported PHP version for this project.

Tests

To run the test suite, you first need to clone this repo and then install all dependencies through Composer:

composer install

To run the test suite, go to the project root and run:

vendor/bin/phpunit

The test suite contains both unit tests and functional integration tests. The functional tests require access to a running Asterisk server instance and will be skipped by default. If you want to also run the functional tests, you need to supply your AMI login details in an environment variable like this:

LOGIN=username:password@localhost php vendor/bin/phpunit

License

This project is released under the permissive MIT license.

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