[asterisk-dev] AMI Channels

[Phil Mickelson]

Matt,

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond!

Phil Mickelson

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Phil Mickelson <phil at cbasoftware.com>
> wrote:
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1.  There is a BridgeDestroy event but no ChannelDestroy (or
> ChannelClose or
> > whatever) event.  Why not?
>
> The equivalent is Hangup. Channel lifetimes are marked by "Newchannel"
> and "Hangup".
>
> See:
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/AMI+v2+Specification#AMIv2Specification-BasicChannelLifetime
>
> > 2.  Every other event seems to be in CamelCase, but Newchannel is not.
> Is
> > there a reason for this or just an oversight or perhaps just unimportant?
> > In the same vein, why is it Newchannel and not ChannelCreate?
>
> Really, it's just an artifact of historical AMI. The interface has
> always indicated a new channel using "Newchannel", and its termination
> with "Hangup". Bridges - as a first class citizen - are new in 12+,
> and hence have a slightly different convention that follow a more
> familiar nomenclature.
>
> While we renamed a decent chunk of AMI events in 12+, "Newchannel" and
> "Hangup" are so ubiquitous that renaming those two - in particular -
> would have hurt a lot of implementations. Hence we opted to keep the
> names the same.
>
> Matt
>
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