Do not publish the event if the keepalive interval has not changed

Author: sergeuz

communication/src/ping.h

@@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ class Pinger
 		// TODO: It feels that this logic should have been implemented in the system layer
 		if ( !(this->keepalive_source == KeepAliveSource::USER && source == KeepAliveSource::SYSTEM) )
 		{
-			this->ping_interval = interval;
 			this->keepalive_source = source;
-			return true;
+			if (this->ping_interval != interval) {
+				this->ping_interval = interval;
+				return true;
+			}
 		}
 		return false;
 	}

system/src/system_cloud_internal.cpp

@@ -1109,6 +1109,9 @@ bool publishKeepaliveInterval(unsigned interval) {
             return false;
         }
     }
+    // TODO: Even though the keepalive interval is not supposed to be changed frequently, it would be
+    // nice to make sure the previously published event is either sent or cancelled before publishing
+    // a new event. This would help to mitigate the effect of possible out of order delivery
     char buf[16] = {};
     snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%u", interval);
     return publishEvent(KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL_EVENT, buf);