An Elixir library designed to write Session Initiation Protocol middleware.
Introduction
SIP is a very flexible protocol that has great depth. It was designed to be a general-purpose way to set up real-time multimedia sessions between groups of participants. It is a text-based protocol modeled on the request/response model used in HTTP. This makes it easy to debug because the messages are relatively easy to construct and easy to see.
Sippet is designed as a simple SIP middleware library, aiming the developer to write any kind of function required to register users, get their availability, check capabilities, setup and manage sessions. On the other hand, Sippet does not intend to provide any feature available in a fully functional SIP UAC/UAS, proxy server, B2BUA, SBC or application; instead, it has only the essential building blocks to build any kind of SIP middleware.
Overview
One of the most central parts of Sippet is the Sippet.Message
. Instead of
many headers that you end up having to parse by yourself, there's an internal
parser written in C++ (an Erlang NIF) that does all the hard work for you. This
way, the Sippet.Message.headers
is a key-value simple Map
where the key is
the header name, and the value varies accordingly the header type. For
instance, the header :cseq
has the form {sequence :: integer, method}
where
the method
is an atom with the method name (like :invite
).
Message routing is performed just manipulating Sippet.Message
headers;
everything else is performed by these layers in a very standard way. That means
you may not be able to build some non-standard behaviors, like routing the
message to a given host that wasn't correctly added to the topmost Via header.
As Sippet is a simple SIP library, the developer has to understand the protocol very well before writing a middleware. This design decision came up because all attempts to hide any inherent SIP complexity by other frameworks have failed.
There is no support for plugins or hooks, these case be implemented easily with
Elixir behaviors and macros, and the developer may custom as he likes. Incoming
messages and transport errors are directed to a Sippet.Core
module behavior.
Finally, there is no support for many different transport protocols; a simple
Sippet.Transports.UDP
implementation is provided, which is enough for general
purpose SIP middleware. Transport protocols can be implemented quite easily
using the same logic of Sippet.Transport.UDP
.
Installation
The package can be installed from Hex as:
- Add
sippet
to your list of dependencies inmix.exs
:
def deps do
[{:sippet, "~> 1.0"}]
end
- Give a name to your stack and build it:
# Creates a :mystack Sippet instance
Sippet.start_link(name: :mystack)
# The below will create a default UDP transport listening on 0.0.0.0:5060/udp
Sippet.Transports.UDP.start_link(name: :mystack)
- Create a
Sippet.Core
and register it:
defmodule MyCore do
use Sippet.Core
def receive_request(incoming_request, server_key) do
# route the request to your UA or proxy process
end
def receive_response(incoming_response, client_key) do
# route the response to your UA or proxy process
end
def receive_error(reason, client_or_server_key) do
# route the error to your UA or proxy process
end
end
Sippet.register_core(:mystack, MyCore)
VoilĂ ! The SIP stack will be listening on the indicated address and port, and
your MyCore
module will receive callbacks from it whenever a SIP message
arrives on it.
You may send messages this way:
request = %Message{
start_line: RequestLine.new(:options, "sip:sip.example.com"),
headers: %{
via: [
{{2, 0}, :udp, {"localhost", 5060}, %{"branch" => Message.create_branch()}}
],
from: {"", URI.parse!("sip:localhost"), %{"tag" => Message.create_tag()}},
to: {"", URI.parse!("sip:sip.example.com"), %{}},
cseq: {1, :options},
user_agent: "Sippet/1.0",
call_id: Message.create_call_id()
}
}
Sippet.send(:sippet, request)
If you prefer to specify messages directly in wire format, here you go:
request =
"""
OPTIONS sip:sip.example.com SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP localhost:5060;branch=#{Message.create_branch()}
From: sip:localhost;tag=#{Message.create_tag()}
To: sip:sip.example.com
CSeq: 1 OPTIONS
User-Agent: Sippet/1.0
Call-ID: #{Message.create_call_id()}
""" |> Message.parse!()
Sippet.send(:sippet, request)
Further documentation can found at https://hexdocs.pm/sippet.
Headers format
# Definitions
# ======================================================================================
@type type :: String.t
@type subtype :: String.t
@type token :: String.t
@type name :: String.t
@type scheme :: String.t
@type parameters :: %{String.t => String.t}
@type uri :: Sippet.URI.t
@type major :: integer
@type minor :: integer
@type display_name :: String.t
@type string :: String.t
@type timestamp :: double
@type delay :: double
@type protocol :: atom | String.t
@type method :: atom | String.t
# Header Name Type
# ======================================================================================
@type headers :: %{
:accept => [{{type, subtype}, parameters}, ...],
:accept_encoding => [{token, parameters}, ...],
:accept_language => [{token, parameters}, ...],
:alert_info => [{uri, parameters}, ...],
:allow => [token, ...],
:authentication_info => %{name => value},
:authorization => [{scheme, parameters}, ...],
:call_id => token,
:call_info => [{uri, parameters}, ...],
:contact => "*" | [{display_name, uri, parameters}, ...],
:content_disposition => {token, parameters},
:content_encoding => [token, ...],
:content_language => [token, ...],
:content_length => integer,
:content_type => {{type, subtype}, parameters},
:cseq => {integer, method},
:date => NaiveDateTime.t,
:error_info => [{uri, parameters}, ...],
:expires => integer,
:from => {display_name, uri, parameters},
:in_reply_to => [token, ...],
:max_forwards => integer,
:mime_version => {major, minor},
:min_expires => integer,
:organization => string,
:priority => token,
:proxy_authenticate => [{scheme, parameters}, ...],
:proxy_authorization => [{scheme, parameters}, ...],
:proxy_require => [token, ...],
:reason => {token, parameters},
:record_route => [{display_name, uri, parameters}, ...],
:reply_to => {display_name, uri, parameters},
:require => [token, ...],
:retry_after => {integer, comment, parameters},
:route => [{display_name, uri, parameters}, ...],
:server => string,
:subject => string,
:supported => [token, ...],
:timestamp => {timestamp, delay},
:to => {display_name, uri, parameters},
:unsupported => [token, ...],
:user_agent => string,
:via => [{{major, minor}, protocol, {address, port}, parameters}, ...],
:warning => [{integer, agent, text}, ...],
:www_authenticate => [{scheme, parameters}, ...],
String.t => [String.t, ...]
}
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Guilherme Balena Versiani. See LICENSE for further details.