- Extract changes to separate merge

- Updated wait loop time

- Added helper test script

- Updated old get_slice calls to new get_slice_by_uuid

- Added missing bearer mappings

- Corrected OFC'23 constants

- Added bearers for OFC'23

Slice component functional with an script to generate batches of slices.

Added SLA availability as percentage.

- Added new field availability in SLA Availability update

Addition of bindings for YANG "IETF Slice Service" data model parsing
Refactoring of subfolder "tools"

- Corrected structure of Debug API
- Updated paths and endpoints
- Removed unneeded common constants

- Added/Updated headers
- Added script to update copyright headers

- reduced dependencies since it breaks pipeline

- updated pipeline to meet requirements and dependencies

- migrated from DEFAULT_CONTEXT_UUID to DEFAULT_CONTEXT_NAME
- migrated from DEFAULT_TOPOLOGY_UUID to DEFAULT_TOPOLOGY_NAME
- migrated from INTERDOMAIN_TOPOLOGY_UUID to INTERDOMAIN_TOPOLOGY_NAME

- removed check of reply.entity_id==request.entity_id; context computes UUID-like identifiers based from requested identifiers for performance reasons

- minor cosmetic changes

- Implemented Debug API
- Implementing unitary debug API tests

- unified RPC method wrapper with performance evaluation
- migrated components to new method wrapping API
- added new grafana dashboard backups

- fix CI/CD pipeline unit tests

- fixed show_logs_monitoring script
- Context Queries: added get_service, get_slice, get_topology methods
- Context Queries: corrected bug with get inter topology
- Moved old Build/Load Descriptor scripts to common
- Fixed retrieval of objects loaded from descriptors
- Deactivated close of clients in descriptor loader
- Moved MockOSM library to common tests/tools folder

Compute component:
- updated to use new context query methods
- updated to use new MockOSM location

OFC'22 tests:
- updated MockOSM paths
- updated fixtures
- added loggers
- corrected WIM service definitions
- improved verification of KPIs created and values returned
- optimized removal of entities
- optimized service discovery in delete test
- added on-line logging to tests

- updated WIM service settings

- updated MockOSM constants and helper methods

minor correction after renaming of common methods

- added bearers for Hackfest

Common:
- added slice to EventTools

OFC'22 tests:
- corrected OFC'22 delete service test to identify appropriate service to be deleted
- removed usage of events for testing

Compute:
- remove diversity constraint when not populated

Device:
- removed unused field in database and code polishing

Service:
- migrated L3NMEmulatedServiceHandler to the new API
- polishing of code

Second part of harmonizing L2NM and L3NM according to the latest changes. Small fixes around the code.

- updated OFC'22 test scripts with source of env variables
- activated DEBUG logs in Device and Service components
- added Slice as dependency of Compute
- removed creation of services in Compute, all goes through Slice
- Added missing default constraints in PathComp Frontend
- added logic in Slice to identify if its L2 or L3

- corrected endpoint identifiers in bearer definitions in Compute

- adding deploy of slice component
- homogeneized bearer definitions in Compute

ECOC'22 test:
- added CTTC OLS and Automation component deployment to script

Common:
- corrected DeviceType name for transponder

Compute:
- added bearer definitions for ECOC'22 demo
- removed hard errors and replaced by warning log messages
- forced to use VPLS, i.e., always slices
- added definition of L2-VPN service settings

Device component:
- forced to use emulated devices for openconfig devices (just for demo purposes, for the sake of reducing demo time)
- added commit_per_delete setting in OpenConfigDriver
- improved detection of PORT components for ADVA devices

PathComp-Frontend component:
- added default settings for TAPI connections
- corrected reply composition; subservices were added wrongly
- added log lines for debug purposes

Service component:
- corrected ConfigRules for L2NM Emulated Service Handler
- adapted TAPI Service Handler to new framework
- added log lines in TaskScheduler compose_from_service (debugging)
- TaskScheduler compose_from_service does not retrieve all resources (debugging)
- removed ConnectionExpander from Tasks ConfigureConnection and DeconfigureConnection

WebUI component:
- minor improvements

- removed unneeded sleep method

- Updated endpoint mapping for ECOC'22 scenario
- Swapped get-service and get-slice methods to priorize slices over services