An entity can report its state transitions to a HAM. The HAM maintains the current state of every entity (as reported by the entity). The HAM does not interpret the meaning of the state value itself, neither does it try to validate the state transitions, but can generate events based on transitions from one state to another.
Components can publish transitions that they want the external world to know. These states need not necessarily represent a specific state the application uses internally for decision making.
The following function can be used to notify a HAM of a state transition. Since the HAM is only interested in the next state in the transition, this is the only information that is transmitted to the HAM. The HAM then triggers a condition state change event internally, which other components can subscribe to, using the ham_condition_state() API call described below.
/* report a state transition */
int ham_entity_condition_state(ham_entity_t *ehdl, unsigned tostate,
unsigned flags);