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

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

- improved objects_factory : Service-related methods

Common:
- renamed device type OPTICAL_LINE_SYSTEM to OPEN_LINE_SYSTEM
- added DATACENTER and EMULATED_DATACENTER device types.

Context:
- modified service constraints for test object to use nomenclature "metric[unit]"
- corrected ConstraintModel dump methods

Device:
- uncommented dump methods in database ContextModel and TopologyModel

OFC'22 / OECCPSC'22 tests:
- renamed device type OPTICAL_LINE_SYSTEM to OPEN_LINE_SYSTEM

WebUI:
OFC'22 / OECCPSC'22 tests:
- renamed device type OPTICAL_LINE_SYSTEM to OPEN_LINE_SYSTEM

- added object factory method for emulated datacenters

Common:
- Added missing object factory methods for constraints

Context:
- Adapted unitary tests to new constraint object factory methods

Service:
- Adapted unitary tests to new constraint object factory methods

PathComp-Backend:
- Deactivated health probes since it causes problems in backend REST server

PathComp-Frontend:
- Correct unitary test constraints for SP algorithm
- Adapted unitary tests to new constraint object factory methods
- Fixed instantiation of ShortestPath and KDisjointPath Algorithms
- Ignore unknown constraints in Algorithm request composition

- partial integration of PathComp with Service
- ongoing work

- added helper methods to copy/update grpc messages: config_rules, constraints, endpoint_ids, service_ids
-  extended Context ConstraintModel to support different types of constraints
- extended EndpointModel with get_endpoint helper method
- extended SliceModel to incorporate config rules

- common.tools.timestamp.Converters

- 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

- Moved imports from *.proto folder to common.proto folder
- Removed webui's genproto.sh script
- Minor code and linting fixing
- Arranged requirements to accelerate Docker image creation
- Updated Dockerfile
- Arranged GitLab CI/CD pipeline
- Corrected usage of ConfigRules to use new custom ConfigRules
- Moved config variables to new config framework
- Removed unneeded Config variables

- 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

- 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.

- not functiona, just skeleton to generate the demo paper.
- logic for disjoint paths to be implemented

- initial skeleton (not functional)

- added helper methods to object_factory

- defined unified constants for all micro-services
- defined common settings getter methods
- defined generic gRPC servicer
- defined generic Rest servicer
- defined common MockServicer for Monitoring component
- removed old common/tests MockService class; to be replaced by new generic gRPC servicer
- minor code formatting/styling

- code styling and cleanup

new development of microwave device - implemented the Api to get configurations, create and delete services

Updated gRPC proto files to prevent trouble with KPI sample types in devices, also updated files related to this issue.

- Subscriptions to be implemented

Common:
- Normalized report_coverage_*.sh scripts, and temporarily summarized results in device one for testing purposes.
- Adapted run_tests_locally.sh script for testing purposes
- Improved message synthesis of ServiceException

Context:
- Improved ConfigModel helper functions

Device (intermediate backup):
- Removed DataCache since it reduces readability of the code. Moved database one level up.
- Improved ServicerImpl and moved DataCache functionality over there.
- Added condition to prevent AddDevice request from carrying a configuration.
- Multiple pre-work required for processing configuration differences in DeviceServiceServicerImpl.

- Final version of Context service ready for integration tests
- Integrated REST API read-only methods
- Updated test units for gRPC and REST API interfaces
- Improved flag for pre-populating database with fake testing data
- Combined Redis within Context POD

Common:
- Renamed common.metrics to common.rpc_method_wrapper
- Moved ServiceException to common.rpc_method_wrapper
- Implemented High-Level ORM methods to simplify Database handling

Context:
- Added flag to auto-populate fake data for testing purposes
- Added fake objects for testing purposes
- Minor corrections in ORM Database Models
- Reimplemented gRPC Servicer methods using HighLevel ORM helper methods
- Implemented complete unit testing of gRPC Servicer
- Added Message Broker to enable distribution of database events
- Implemented gRPC GetEvents methods
- Modified default config values to support larger number of persistent connections for events streaming
- Reimplemented Context REST Resource to re-use gRPC Servicer and prevent duplicating code

Automated Tests:
- Reactivated common and context unit tests