Support multiple instances on one K-Link

[pantierra]

In order to improve efficiency for deployment, hosting and maintenance the K-Link shall be extended to support multiple K-Link instances on one K-Link installation.

Therefore the following tasks are defined:

• Extend the API to an K-Link identifier
• Extend the K-Search Library to search for a predefined K-Link identifier

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Extend the API to add a K-Link identifier

The K-Link Registry will have a K-Link concept and representation. A K-Link might composed by

• identifier, a unique identifier of the K-Link that will not change over time
• name, a label/title/name representing the K-Link
• website, the url of the front-facing website of the K-Link, if any (optional)
• description, a description of the K-Link that can be presented in an information dialog
• manager, the user that is responsible of the K-Link

+---------------+                  +-----------+                  +-----------+
|  Application  | ----- 1..* ----- |  K-Link   | ----- 1..1 ----- |  Manager  |
+---------------+                  +-----------+                  +-----------+

An application, in the future, can be connected to multiple K-Links. So far the main goal is to enable a single instance to serve multiple K-Links to reduce required resources (i.e. Multitenancy)