Generator improvements and cleanup

- generator now supports include-comments flag (as opt-in)
- minor code cleanup in binapi-generator
- remove obsolete unit tests
- flatten examples from examples/cmd folder
- introduce constant for checking compatibility in future versions

Change-Id: I3545f2ba4b869a3b51d6d0de7e742f3f1e1be392
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Fabry <ofabry@cisco.com>

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+# Stats API Example
+
+This example demonstrates how to retrieve statistics from VPP using [the new Stats API](https://github.com/FDio/vpp/blob/master/src/vpp/stats/stats.md).
+
+## Requirements
+
+The following requirements are required to run this example:
+
+- install **VPP 18.10+**
+- enable stats in VPP:
+
+  ```sh
+  statseg {
+  	default
+  }
+  ``` 
+  > The [default socket](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Command-line_Arguments#.22statseg.22_parameters) is located at `/run/vpp/stats.sock`.
+- run the VPP, ideally with some traffic
+
+## Running example
+
+First build the example: `go build git.fd.io/govpp.git/examples/stats-api`. 
+
+Use commands `ls` and `dump` to list and dump statistics. Optionally, patterns can be used to filter the results.
+
+### List stats matching patterns `/sys/` and `/if/`
+```
+$ ./stats-api ls /sys/ /if/
+Listing stats.. /sys/ /if/
+ - /sys/vector_rate
+ - /sys/input_rate
+ - /sys/last_update
+ - /sys/last_stats_clear
+ - /sys/heartbeat
+ - /sys/node/clocks
+ - /sys/node/vectors
+ - /sys/node/calls
+ - /sys/node/suspends
+ - /if/drops
+ - /if/punt
+ - /if/ip4
+ - /if/ip6
+ - /if/rx-no-buf
+ - /if/rx-miss
+ - /if/rx-error
+ - /if/tx-error
+ - /if/rx
+ - /if/rx-unicast
+ - /if/rx-multicast
+ - /if/rx-broadcast
+ - /if/tx
+ - /if/tx-unicast-miss
+ - /if/tx-multicast
+ - /if/tx-broadcast
+Listed 25 stats
+```
+
+### Dump all stats with their types and values
+```
+$ ./stats-api dump
+Dumping stats..
+ - /sys/last_update                       ScalarIndex 10408
+ - /sys/heartbeat                         ScalarIndex 1041
+ - /err/ip4-icmp-error/unknown type        ErrorIndex 5
+ - /net/route/to                CombinedCounterVector [[{Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:0 Bytes:0} {Packets:5 Bytes:420}]]
+ - /if/drops                      SimpleCounterVector [[0 5 5]]
+Dumped 5 (2798) stats
+```