- added missing log messages in MockContext

- updated generic descriptor loader tool
- updated scenario loader for automated tests

- new generic descriptor loader tool
- new scenario loader for automated tests

- corrected SetContext
- corrected SetSlice/RemoveSlice
- implemented GetSliceEvents
- corrected RemoveService

- updated manifest file with gateway container port
- corrected behaviour of GetFromDlt method in MockDltGateway
- minor formatting in MockDltGateway
- implemented first version of DltConnector's Event Dispatcher (to be tested)
- moved own-domain-uuid finder to separate class in DltConnector
- implemented method to identify empty/not-found records

- Improved error logging

MockBlockchain:
- Implemented mock-blockchain module to facilitate testing and debugging of DLT connector & workflows
- Added manifests, Dockerfile, etc.

DLT Connector:
- corrected requirements.in
- updated Dockerfile
- WIP: implementation of test_unitary.py

DLT Gateway:
- Improved/extended Dockerfile
- Moved Dockerfile to correct folder
- Corrected import path for proto files

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

- Implemented MockServicerImpl_DltGateway
- Updated Objects for unitary tests

- 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

- 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.

- 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

- Added Mock Slice service
- Corrected Compute unit tests

- Context Database API and ORM rework in progress

Common / Context / Device / Service:
- Improvements in unitary testing
- Extended assertion validators tor testing
- Factorized service implementation code to improve testability, reusability and increase code coverage

Common:
- Improvements in Database API definition and unit tests
- Implemented additional Assertions to be used by unitary tests

Context and Device:
- Improved logging of errors.

Service:
- Implemented service methods (except GetConnectionList). All methods are under active debug.
- Partially implemented unitary tests

Common:
- renamed report_coverage.sh script to report_coverage_all.sh

Common/DatabaseAPI:
- improved root class validations and test units
- added _RootEntity interface
- improved definition of Context database API entities

Context service:
- added AddLink/DeleteLink rpc methods
- temporarily disabled integration tests

Device service:
- applied renamings in service and test units

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