- Pre-merge cleanup

- Extended method to manage Constraints to enable specifying a new action

- Added device type IP SDN Controller
- Added logic to split controllers and devices
- Controllers are onboarded first, then devices

- Added test script
- Improved unitary test
- Minor code fixings
- Removed unneeded files
- Added related objects factory methods

- `common` > `tests` > `InMemoryObjectDatabase.py`: enhance log error reporting
- `common` > `tools` > `descriptor` > `Tools.py`: correct formatting of non-string resource_values in custom config rules in method `format_custom_config_rules()`
- `common` > `tools` > `service` > `GenericRestServer.py`: correct format of reported listen URL

- Enabled explicit addition of devices and links to topologies

- Corrected return type in Topology methods

- Corrected Type Hint in method get_topology_details()

- Added methods to manage dattime objects
- Updated existing methods accordingly

- Added methods to build constraints: schedule and exclusions
- Ordered build constraint methods according to context.proto file

- Renamed attribute current_capacity_gbps to used_capacity_gbps

- Add attributes total/current capacity to link creation methos

- Added helper method get_topology_details()

- Added field name in create_topology method

- Corrected new definition of endpoint descriptors in tests and components

- Improved definition of endpoint descriptors

- Added field name in Device-related methods
- Added field name in Link-related methods

- Added field name in method create_context
- Enahnced filtering in Interdomain method get_device_to_domain_map()
- Migrated old methods compute_interdomain_path() and compute_traversed_domains() to new compute_interdomain_sub_slices()

- Improved InterDomain queries
- Cleaned up code

Creation of BGP-LS speaker module and webUI interface to manage BGP-LS peers. Also, possibility to add discovered nodes and automatic link management. Creation of a folder in compute to support BGP-LS in NBI.

1) New features in BGP module.
2) Removal of old files.
3) Webui support for new functionalities.
4) Compute modification for NBI support (in progress).

- Removed update context/topology as it is not needed

- Added get_connection_by_id and get_connection_by_uuid methods
- Updated old get_service method to get_service_by_id and get_service_by_uuid
- Updated get_service method to use new SelectService context method and filter options
- Updated old get_slice method to get_slice_by_id and get_slice_by_uuid
- Updated get_slice method to use new SelectSlice context method and filter options
- Updated get_device method to use new SelectDevice context method and filter options

- Added dummy unload mode

- Added availability percentage to SLA Availability constraint

- Removed availability percentage from SLA Availability constraint (new feature)

- Added availability percentage to SLA Availability constraint

- Removed availability percentage from SLA Availability constraint (new feature)

- Added device type "TeraFlowSDN controller"
- Added driver type for IETF L2VPN
- Updated corresponding components

- Corrected Constraint definitions

- corrected parsing of slice descriptors

- implemented missing methods

- implemented missing methods

- added support for dictionary and file-based loading of descriptors
- added getter methods
- added validation and unload methods
- integrated helper methods
- updated documentation

- Added safety control