General changes:
- implemented data type checker class
- improved database Entity/Collection/Attributes API
- implemented grpc message parsing assertions
- integrated code coverage analyzer and reporter with code testers
- added example topology NSFNET

Common to device & context services:
- improved database context API and its tests

Context service:
- updated context proto file: added AddLink/DeleteLink RPCs, added LinkId to Link
- minor changes

Device service:
- implemented device service functionality
- improved device client
- updated genproto script
- updated device proto file: configure request becomes a Device message
- updated context proto file: operational status: added KEEP_STATUS, changed DISABLED
- moved device tests to global scripts
- extended unitary tests
- temporarily disabled integration tests

- definition of context API
- implementation of inmemory and Redis backend engines
- implementation of unit tests for both engines

Preliminary unfinished version of device service and Context API based on Redis. To be finished, it is just a backup.

Move database to common folder, since it will be used also by device service, and implement very minor changes.

Requirements.txt added to .gitignore file

Monitoring manifest for K8s added

- monitoring/test_monitoring.py: provides a basic testing skeleton
- monitoring/requirements.in/.txt: updated with pytest
- monitoring/genproto.py: added instructions to import generated Python modules using "from . import ..." instead of "import ..."; otherwise, pytest and other possible modules doing imports might complain.
- monitoring/monitoring_server.py: packed start_server and stop_server functionaity to simplify test definition, minor formattings, bug resolutions and improvements in package import.
- monitoring/monitoring_client.py: minor formattings, bug resolutions, and improvements in package import.

- monitoring/requirements.txt: removed garbage on top of file
- monitoring/monitoring_client.py: solved bug in return values of some methods and wrong code in test case
- monitoring/monitoring_server.py: solved bug with instantiation of servicer class
- monitoring/Dockerfile: clarified some arguments in package installation, moved code in container to /var/monitoring, added upgrade of essential python packages, other minor improvements
- monitoring/context_pb2.py: upgraded version since previous has no contextId fields.