BLE Gap deprecation cleanup/rework

features/FEATURE_BLE/ble/BLE.h

@@ -465,12 +465,6 @@ class BLE {
     bool event_signaled;
 };
 
-/**
- * @deprecated This type alias is retained for the sake of compatibility with
- * older code. This will be dropped at some point.
- */
-typedef BLE BLEDevice;
-
 /**
  * @namespace ble Entry namespace for all %BLE API definitions.
  */

features/FEATURE_BLE/ble/BLEInstanceBase.h

@@ -240,17 +240,6 @@ class BLEInstanceBase
     virtual const SecurityManager &getSecurityManager(void) const = 0;
 #endif // BLE_FEATURE_SECURITY
 
-    /**
-     * Process pending events present in the vendor subsystem; then, put the MCU
-     * to sleep until an external source wakes it up.
-     *
-     * @attention This function is deprecated in the BLE class. It will be
-     * removed from this interface once it is removed from BLE.
-     *
-     * @see BLE::waitForEvent() BLE::processEvents()
-     */
-    virtual void waitForEvent(void) = 0;
-
 private:
     // this class is not a value type.
     // prohibit copy construction and copy assignement

features/FEATURE_BLE/ble/BLETypes.h

@@ -831,6 +831,70 @@ struct coded_symbol_per_bit_t :SafeEnum<coded_symbol_per_bit_t, uint8_t> {
         SafeEnum<coded_symbol_per_bit_t, uint8_t>(value) { }
 };
 
+
+/**
+ * Representation of a whitelist of addresses.
+ */
+struct whitelist_t {
+        /**
+     * BLE address representation.
+     *
+     * It contains an address-type (peer_address_type_t) and the address value
+     * (address_t).
+     */
+    struct entry_t {
+        /**
+         * Construct an entry_t object with the supplied type and address.
+         *
+         * @param[in] typeIn The peer address type.
+         * @param[in] addressIn The peer address.
+         *
+         * @post type is equal to typeIn and address is equal to the content
+         * present in addressIn.
+         */
+        entry_t(peer_address_type_t typeIn, const address_t &addressIn) :
+            type(typeIn),
+            address(addressIn)
+        { }
+
+        /**
+         * Empty constructor.
+         *
+         * @note The address constructed with the empty constructor is not
+         * valid.
+         *
+         * @post type is equal to PUBLIC and the address value is equal to
+         * 00:00:00:00:00:00
+         */
+        entry_t(void) : type(), address() { }
+
+        /**
+         * Type of the peer address.
+         */
+        peer_address_type_t  type;
+
+        /**
+         * Value of the peer address.
+         */
+        address_t address;
+    };
+
+    /**
+        * Pointer to the array of the addresses composing the whitelist.
+        */
+    entry_t *addresses;
+
+    /**
+        * Number addresses in this whitelist.
+        */
+    uint8_t size;
+
+    /**
+        * Capacity of the array holding the addresses.
+        */
+    uint8_t capacity;
+};
+
 } // namespace ble
 
 /**