- Arranged commit before merge
- Replaced string-based timestamps by context.Timestamp
- Created helper functions to convert timestamps string from/to float
- Arranged requirements to meet dependencies of converter functions

- Arranged .gitignore & .gitkeep files in common proto folder
- Created specific run_tests_locally script for Context component
- Moved imports from *.proto folder to common.proto folder
- Adapted common.tools.object_factory to new proto definitions for ConfigRule and Constraint
- Extended common.tools.type_checkers to new proto definitions for ConfigRule and Constraint
- Removed context's genproto.sh script
- Adapted Events generated to new timestamp data type
- Minor code and linting fixing

- fixed issue with messages in policy.proto and context-policy.proto
- modified and unified script to generate Python code from proto files
- segregated script to generate UML code
- added/modified apropriate .gitignore files to prevent uploading generated code. It should be generated locally or during creation of Docker containers
- added symbolic link from common/proto to folder containing python generated code

PolicyAdd rpc replaced by PolicyAddService & PolicyAddDevice

ACL:
- defined generic model for ACLs

Context:
- Extended context.proto with ConnectionSettings
- Extended context.proto with ConfigRules specific for ACLs
Extended context.proto with Constraints for Schedule, Location, and SLAs
- created ContextPolicy to bring persistent storage of policies
- updated genproto.sh

Policy:
- added missing message to list PolicyRuleIds

- restructured component and separated it into "connector" and "gateway" subcomponents.
- arranged name typos in DLT proto file
- prepared component folders for dlt-connector component

- Added definition of algorithm in proto file
- Minor code comments and TODOs added

- Defined new dlt.proto file

- extended proto file to support retrieval of both services and connections, e.g., services requested + sub-services, and the connections and sub-connections supporting the services and sub-services.
- minor bug fixings in MockServicerImpl_Context and implementation of support for Slices
- implemented and pre-tested unitary tests for PathComp
- implemented in PathComp service the logic to retrieve context data, and the skeleton to retrieve the replies to compute requests.

Modifications in the monitoring information model and skeleton of the methods in the server and client