[asterisk-dev] ARI StasisEnd event vs. channel variables

[Joshua Colp]

Matthew Jordan wrote:

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>
> Two thoughts:
> (1) I wonder if anyone needs the state conveyed on events other than
> StasisEnd? If Asterisk is maintaining all of your state for you, and
> you need to know some part of the state in your external application,
> how do you ask for it?
>
> (2) Even if we emit variable state on StasisEnd, how would we know
> which state to emit? Would we want to require users to provide it up
> front in ari.conf, or through some more dynamic mechanism?

Going beyond just making channel variables get output on StasisEnd I 
don't have a clear gut feeling or thought on how a state interface 
should look and operate. I do know it could quickly spiral into many 
knobs and options to tweak what gets output when, how often, all in an 
effort to reduce message size and tweak performance.

I do think using applications which are currently using this approach as 
a base could yield a good direction.

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