[NS01] Add NetworkScore
As attested by numerous TODOs in the code, a new way of representing network quality and policy is needed instead of an int. An int representing the quality of the network requires all parties using it to know how all other parties are using it, and implementation details about the decision algorithm. For all intents and purposes, the selection is left to individual network factories who try to achieve a desired result while piecing together all possible states of the system. As the number of such cases and desires increases, this becomes both intractable and unmaintainable. Indeed, at this time in the codebase nobody can really predict exactly how a given change in score will affect selection across the board, and it is essentially impossible to figure out the behavior of network selection by inspecting the code because the moving parts are scattered throughout the entire codebase. Having an object encapsulating policy and quality values will let us centralize the selection and make it again possible to maintain without knowledge of all behaviors of all network factories. It will also provide better guarantees of respecting policy, and allow bugfixes that were not possible before because they'd touch too many parts of the code. Test: FrameworksNetTests FrameworksWifiTests NetworkStackTests Change-Id: I3185a6412b9b659798faf0c6882699e9c63cc115
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