Converting Macro to Gosub

Macros are deprecated in Asterisk and will be removed completely in Asterisk version 21. It is therefore necessary to prepare the migration of all Macros to Gosub().

To do this smoothly, the following is proposed:

• Keep the part of code with the macro and copy the content into the subcontext.

• Keep the original macro context name, but replace 'macro' with 'sub'. In the following example we are converting macro-get-vmcontext to sub-get-vmcontext.

• Edit the now deprecated macro context to include a priority (1) gosub to show the deprecated alert in the asterisk full log.

The alert called is :

After that, it's easy to know what we need to change in the dial plan to migrate marco to gosub like this:

Above we can see that the from-pms context includes a call to *98 in line 13 cailling a macro that needs to be migrated to Gosub()

Side PHP code:

You must use ext_gosub() like this:

So: ext_gosub( Prioroty, Ext, Context, Args ) ;

In our example about get-vmcontext, it will be changed to sub-get-vmcontext with a pritority 1 and the extension s :

List of modules that need to be converted:

Module Name	Open Source	Issue Link	Status(Open, Completed)	Fixed Version 15	Fixed Version 16
accountcodepreserve
areminder
blacklist
callerid
callforward
calllimit
callrecording
callwaiting
campon
conferences
contactmanager
core		FREEPBX-19656 - Change user Macro hooks to Gosub RESOLVED	In Progress
cos
dashboard
daynight
dictate
directory
donotdisturb
endpoint
extensionroutes
fax
findmefollow
framework
hotelwakeup
infoservices
ivr
languages
miscapps
outroutemsg
paging
pagingpro
parking
parkpro
pbdirectory
pinsets
queues
recordings
ringgroups
sangomacrm
speeddial
timeconditions
vmblast
vmnotify
voicemail
vqplus
webcallback
xmpp
zulu