MX Telecom ID Codes

[RLS]

Is this forum ever visited or replied to? I see the three messages posted here before me have not warranted one reply from anyone.

I will try another question. I hope someone who knows is monitoring!

After experimenting with SMS providers, we settled on MX Telecom. Great - except that the level of the service we have says that we must send back a special username based on the carrier from which the message came. Pain in the posterior...

So, for example, they give this parameter for Operator Code:
ID: 0x3010
Name: Operator Code
Direction: MX -> Customer
Length: Variable
value: string (not null terminated)

So, if my cfscript code looks something like this:

mesg = structNew();
mesg.command = "submit";
mesg.sourceAddress = "12345";
mesg.destAddress = "16125551212";
mesg.shortMessage = "Hello, World.";
sendGatewayMessage("smsMyMenuTest", mesg);

Just how do I encode and pass along that parameter that they want?

RLS

[RLS · Accepted solution]

I have the solution. It was provided to me by someone that I have not received permission from to use his or her name, so I won't, but they are MORE than welcome to come and take credit for finding this solution. I am merely the "journalist" in this regard and am MORE than happy to report how to post custom TLV codes for SMS!

Here's the simple documentation - this should be all you need to finish the job:

* Process the outgoing mesage struct and set optionalParameters that are not
* defined by the SMPP specification.
* See section 5.3 of SMPP.
*
* Two ways to set these values:
* <ol>
* <li> A single value using optionalParamter (no 's')
* out.optionalParamter = 0x1500
* out.optionalParamterValue = "1,2,3,4"
* </li>
* <li> Multiple values using optionalParameters (with 's') and a struct.
* params = StructNew()
* params["0x1501"] = BinaryDecode("1a2b3c4d", "hex")
* params["0x1522"] = CharsetDecode("my value", "utf-8")
* out.optionalParameters = params
* </li>
* </ol>

[Joralac]

RLS,
Thanks for posting this!!

Let me be sure I understand your directions. Assuming you want to include the SMPP optional parameter for a privacy indicator (0x0201) which can include an integer value of 0,1,2, or 3, the message would look like:

params = structNew();
params["0x0201"] = 1; // privacy level 1 (restricted)

mesg = structNew();
mesg.command = "submit";
mesg.sourceAddress = "12345";
mesg.destAddress = "16125551212";
mesg.shortMessage = "Hello, World.";
mesg.optionalParameters = params;
sendGatewayMessage("mySMSGateway", mesg);

Is this correct?

[Newsgroup_User]

Joralac wrote:
> Let me be sure I understand your directions. Assuming you want to include the
> SMPP optional parameter for a privacy indicator (0x0201) which can include an
> integer value of 0,1,2, or 3, the message would look like:
>
> params = structNew();
> params["0x0201"] = 1; // privacy level 1 (restricted)

optionalParameters wants a byte[] so you need to use one of those decode functions.

see:
http://www.sustainablegis.com/blog/cfg11n/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=0E42140A-20ED-7DEE-2AA35B56931A...

[Aryan_Khan2224]

Hi RLS,

It sounds like MX Telecom is asking you to include an Operator Code parameter in your message payload. To handle this in your cfscript, you’d need to add the parameter to your mesg structure before sending it via the gateway. Here’s an example of how you might encode and include the Operator Code parameter:

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mesg = structNew(); mesg.command = "submit"; mesg.sourceAddress = "12345"; mesg.destAddress = "16125551212"; mesg.shortMessage = "Hello, World."; mesg.operatorCode = "your_operator_code_here"; // Replace with the actual operator code provided sendGatewayMessage("smsMyMenuTest", mesg);

If the operatorCode requires special encoding (like hex or a specific byte format), you might need to preprocess it accordingly. ColdFusion offers functions like toBinary() or toBase64() that could be useful depending on the requirement.

For further details, you might want to review MX Telecom's documentation on encoding and formatting specific parameters for bulk SMS services.

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