Reacting to channel state changes
FreeSWITCH channels are always, deterministically, in one specific state of a finite state machine. There are rules for going from one state to another, and you can ask FreeSWITCH core to alert your module whenever a channel changes state.
There are 12 states a channel can be in (init, routing, execute, hangup, exchange_media, soft_execute, consume_media, hibernate, reset, park, reporting, destroy), plus the state none, which a channel is supposed to never assume.
State changes are important moments, particularly for billing and accounting (start of media flows, hangup), but you may want to trigger some procedures in other cases too, for example, when a channel is parked.
Our implementation first declares which state ...
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