By restarting PBRcontrol we lose information

[xtrojak]

I'm not sure whether this is critical, so it has probably low priority.

Anyway... in case we restart the PBRcontrol, it automatically loses information about which data have already been checked. It is natural since this information is only stored "in code" when it is running. Then when get_log is called again, all available data from DB are provided.

This could be solved in two ways:

1. the information is stored in DB
2. it could be solved on Bioarineo side - when connection stops working I will remember the last time stamp when I obtained some data, if I reconnect I will call get_log with the time stamp.

For solution 2, however, we would need some "ping" function which I could use to check whether the PBRcontrol is accessible again (pinging the server is not enough, it does not imply the tool is running too).

Any other ideas or preferences?

[DanDayne]

The ping function would certainly be useful, I will get right on it in #12 .

Another option would be for PBRcontrol to store this information in the separate config.json file that was created as means to resolve issue #7

[DanDayne]

Ping method is partially implemented and is ready to be used in solution 2. (#12 )