6 Implementation examples

6.1 A simple Media Gateway Controller

In megaco/examples/simple/megaco_simple_mgc.erl there is an example of a simple MGC that listens on both text and binary standard ports and is prepared to handle a Service Change Request message to arrive either via TCP/IP or UDP/IP. Messages received on the text port are decoded using a text decoder and messages received on the binary port are decoded using a binary decoder.

The Service Change Reply is encoded in the same way as the request and sent back to the MG with the same transport mechanism UDP/IP or TCP/IP.

After this initial service change message the connection between the MG and MGC is fully established and supervised.

The MGC, with its four listeners, may be started with:

      cd megaco/examples/simple
      erl -pa ../../../megaco/ebin -s megaco_filter -s megaco
      megaco_simple_mgc:start().

or simply 'gmake mgc'.

The -s megaco_filter option to erl implies, the event tracing mechanism to be enabled and an interactive sequence chart tool to be started. This may be quite useful in order to visualize how your MGC interacts with the Megaco/H.248 protocol stack.

The event traces may alternatively be directed to a file for later analyze. By default the event tracing is disabled, but it may dynamically be enabled without any need for re-compilation of the code.

6.2 A simple Media Gateway

In megaco/examples/simple/megaco_simple_mg.erl there is an example of a simple MG that connects to an MGC, sends a Service Change Request and waits synchronously for a reply.

After this initial service change message the connection between the MG and MGC is fully established and supervised.

Assuming that the MGC is started on the local host, four different MG's, using text over TCP/IP, binary over TCP/IP, text over UDP/IP and binary over UDP/IP may be started on the same Erlang node with:

      cd megaco/examples/simple
      erl -pa ../../../megaco/ebin -s megaco_filter -s megaco
      megaco_simple_mg:start().

or simply 'gmake mg'.

If you "only" want to start a single MG which tries to connect an MG on a host named "baidarka", you may use one of these functions (instead of the megaco_simple_mg:start/0 above):

      megaco_simple_mg:start_tcp_text("baidarka", []).
      megaco_simple_mg:start_tcp_binary("baidarka", []).
      megaco_simple_mg:start_udp_text("baidarka", []).
      megaco_simple_mg:start_udp_binary("baidarka", []).