Start REST Outbound Sample¶
A command line console application that starts an outbound service that is currently configured on a cloud region to run a REST API application.
The telephone number to call, the originating number and user-specified outboundParameters to be passed to a single service instance can be supplied on the command line. Multiple instances can be started by specifying the name of the file that contains a set of these parameters for each instance (comma-separated).
Usage¶
python start_rest_outbound.py [--wsserver <cloudWebServerAddress>] <cloudId> <username> <outboundService> <outboundServicePassword> <to>;[<from>];[<token>];[<outboundParameters>] | <csvFilename>
Arguments¶
cloudWebServerAddress
The address of the cloud web server. By default the wrappers call web services on
https://ws-<cloudId>.aculabcloud.net. In certain circumstances you may need to use a different address which you can set here.
cloudId
Cloud region id (e.g. 1-2-0)
username
Cloud account username
outboundService
The outbound service to start
outboundServicePassword
The outbound service password
Followed by either...
to
The destination of the outbound call.
from
The origin of the outbound call.
token
The token string to send to the first page.
outboundParameters
The outbound parameters sent to the service instance. Must contain only seven bit ASCII, excluding ^, | and the control characters.
or...
filename
The name of a file containing 1 or more to;from;outboundParameter strings, comma-separated.
Note
A comma-separated file containing the application instance ids of the invoked services is written when they have all completed (appInstances.csv).
Note
Multiple call invocations are only supported on standard production cloud accounts or above.
Note
For users running Python 2 under Windows, this tool does not support command line arguments containing non-ASCII characters. If you wish to specify command line arguments containing non-ASCII characters, please use Python 3.
Examples¶
Invoke an outbound service
python start_rest_outbound.py 1-2-0 bob@acompany.com BobsOutboundRESTService 1912 "443069990123;443069999876;mytoken;"
Running the command above starts a single instance of BobsOutboundRESTService, the outbound destination is 443069990123, the calling number is 443069999876 and it is passed the token "mytoken".
Invoke an outbound service multiple times
python start_rest_outbound.py 1-2-0 bob@acompany.com BobsOutboundRESTService 1912 targets.csv
Note
The targets.csv in this example contains the following: 443069990123;443069999876;;,sip:bill@bcompany.com;;;user defined info
Running the command above starts two instances of BobsOutboundRESTService. The first instance specifies the outbound destination (443069990123) and the calling number (443069999876). The second instance specifies the outbound destination (sip:bill@bcompany.com) and the outbound parameters (user defined info).