New option to cap the max wait between reconnection attempts. Still default to 10s. (setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries) (#108)

ixwebsocket/IXExponentialBackoff.cpp

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+/*
+ *  IXExponentialBackoff.h
+ *  Author: Benjamin Sergeant
+ *  Copyright (c) 2017-2019 Machine Zone, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ */
+
+#include "IXExponentialBackoff.h"
+
+#include <cmath>
+
+namespace ix
+{
+    uint32_t calculateRetryWaitMilliseconds(
+        uint32_t retry_count,
+        uint32_t maxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries)
+    {
+        uint32_t wait_time = std::pow(2, retry_count) * 100;
+
+        if (wait_time > maxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries || wait_time == 0)
+        {
+            wait_time = maxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries;
+        }
+
+        return wait_time;
+    }
+}