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Mastering FreeSWITCH
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Mastering FreeSWITCH

by Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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API command

API commands are the way to interact in real time with FreeSWITCH. You can use API commands to originate a call, to answer, to gather statistics, to write accounting data, to shutdown the entire system, and more.

API commands are commands you can type while you're connected to FreeSWITCH's console, or via fs_cli. You can send API commands by firing events, both from a module and via an ESL TCP connection.

Modules can add new such functionalities; actually, pretty much all API commands come from modules:

API command

We registered our API command during the LOAD function, as per the dialplan application.

example_api() is the function that implements the ...

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