New get_timestamp() API that separates error code and time value #18
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The ARM toolchain's time_t is unsigned, so we can't return a negative time_t to indicate an error - it gets casted to a very large positive time. This commit adds a new overload int NTPClient::get_timestamp(time_t ×tamp, int timeout); which returns 0 on success and a negative value on failure. On success, the time is written to the timestamp variable. This deprecates the old NTPClient::get_timestamp().
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Replaces #12
The ARM toolchain's time_t is unsigned, so we can't return a negative time_t to indicate an error - it gets casted to a very large positive time.
This commit adds a new overload
which returns 0 on success and a negative value on failure. On success, the time is written to the timestamp variable. This deprecates the old NTPClient::get_timestamp().
Note: The NTPClient is used by cloud connector examples (e.g. mbed-os-example-for-azure), and we have no way to catch NTP errors and retry when using the Arm Compiler due to the error being addressed here. We improved NTP stability by using
time.google.com, but even that one seems to time out occasionally.