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FreeSWITCH 1.8

You're reading from   FreeSWITCH 1.8 Get to grips with VoIP and WebRTC communication and quickly build robust telephony systems with FreeSWITCH

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889134
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anthony Minessale II Anthony Minessale II
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Giovanni Maruzzelli Giovanni Maruzzelli
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Architecture of FreeSWITCH FREE CHAPTER 2. Building and Installation 3. Test Driving the Example Configuration 4. User Directory, SIP, and Verto 5. WebRTC, SIP, and Verto 6. XML Dialplan 7. Phrase Macros and XML IVRs 8. Lua FreeSWITCH Scripting 9. Dialplan in Deep 10. Dialplan, Directory, and ALL via XML_CURL and Scripts 11. ESL - FreeSWITCH Controlled by Events 12. HTTAPI - FreeSWITCH Asks Webserver Next Action 13. Conferencing and WebRTC Video-Conferencing 14. Handling NAT 15. VoIP Security 16. Troubleshooting, Asking for Help, and Reporting Bugs

Event System Commands


Once connected to a mod_event_socket port, or actually once connected in any way (for example, via other events handler modules) to the Event System, you can interact via simple commands.

A lot of information is exposed online in our http://freeswitch.org/confluence, search for "mod_event_socket", at paragraph "Command Documentation".

Let's see the most important, and don't forget to terminate the command, when all data has been entered (all additional headers, and so on) with double CR/LF (that is, double "Enter").

api

Send an api command (blocking mode) and wait for completion:

api <command><arg> 

Api commands are all the ones you can execute typing at the FreeSWITCH console.

Examples:

api originate sofia/mydomain.com/ext@yourvsp.com 1000 
api sleep 5000 

bgapi

Send an api command (non-blocking mode) this will let you execute a job in the background and the result will be sent as an event with an indicated uuid to match the reply to the command):

bgapi <command...
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