Practical VoIP Using VOCAL

Key Data Structures

Figure 9-2 shows the classes and how they encapsulate and inherit from one another.

Let’s have a look at the classes that appear in Figure 9-2:

BasicProxy

A derived class from the HeartLessProxy. A BasicProxy object should be used in a system that supports the heartbeating mechanism, as discussed in Chapter 17. This class adds three heartbeating threads.

Builder

A base class that receives events from the Worker thread for processing. Builder is a Feature container, which is a State container, which is an Operator container. Builder contains a pointer to the proxy CallContainer. Builder objects are used to construct HeartLessProxy and BasicProxy objects.

CallContainer

A base class that is used as the proxy’s container for CallInfo objects.

Figure 9-2. Base code classes

CallInfo

A base class that stores information about a call. A SipProxyEvent object contains CallInfo. CallInfo data members are thread-safe.

DeviceEvent

Derived from SipProxyEvent and a placeholder for events received from a device. These are used in the SIP User Agent for events such as a phone going on- or off-hook.

Feature

Keeps track of running the state machine that is associated with it.

HeartLessProxy

So named because it doesn’t heartbeat. This class creates a call container, call processing FIFO, SIP stack, and Worker and SIP threads. The main method is the run method, which starts ...