WebUI:
- added icons for optical roadm and optical transponder

Common:
- added missing device types

Device:
- added missing emulated device driver mappings

Common:
- added device type for emulated pakcet switches

PathComp:
- added layer mapping for emulated pakcet switches

- Implemented generic MutexQueues class
- Implemented sequentialization of operations in Device component to prevent data corruption and race conditions

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

- Implemented MockServicerImpl_DltGateway
- Updated Objects for unitary tests

- 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

- improved object factory tools for links

- 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