fix(sdk-node)!: fail-fast on MeterProvider creation from config file

[trentm]

This refactors the MeterProvider creation from declarative config
in the startNodeSDK() code path:

• fail-fast (and fallback to a no-op SDK) if the config has unknown
  values or values that aren't yet supported by the SDK
• fixes a number of missed cases
• adds a number of TODO for meter_provider config cases to follow-up on
  (Some of these are to keep this PR smaller, some are because
  sdk-metrics doesn't yet support everything the declarative config
  schema supports configuring.)

Refs: #6785
Refs: #6107 (comment)

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 92.91339% with 18 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 94.97%. Comparing base (7b06368) to head (addf7cc).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...s/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/create-from-config.ts	92.80%	18 Missing ⚠️

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...ental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/start.ts	96.87% <100.00%> (-0.16%)	⬇️
...ental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/utils.ts	95.90% <100.00%> (-1.31%)	⬇️
...s/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/create-from-config.ts	93.76% <92.80%> (-1.66%)	⬇️

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[trentm]

The files and regenerate.sh script in this dir are the exact same setup we use for testable TLS files in the otlp-exporter-base and otlp-grpc-exporter-base packages.

[trentm]

Before/after comparison of test coverage for the 'sdk-node' package.

Before:

  252 passing (2s)

-----------------------|---------|----------|---------|---------|-----------------------------------------
File                   | % Stmts | % Branch | % Funcs | % Lines | Uncovered Line #s
-----------------------|---------|----------|---------|---------|-----------------------------------------
All files              |   97.36 |    93.67 |   98.92 |   97.45 |
 create-from-config.ts |   95.37 |    90.76 |   94.44 |   96.22 | 164,183,223,284
 create-from-env.ts    |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
 diag.ts               |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
 sdk.ts                |    97.7 |    97.75 |     100 |    97.7 | 123,304,430
 semconv.ts            |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
 start.ts              |    96.8 |    90.32 |     100 |    96.8 | 192,195,198
 utils.ts              |   97.65 |    92.97 |     100 |    97.6 | 160,166,205,209-212,392,624-625,719,744
-----------------------|---------|----------|---------|---------|-----------------------------------------

After:

  253 passing (2s)

-----------------------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------------------------------------------
File                   | % Stmts | % Branch | % Funcs | % Lines | Uncovered Line #s
-----------------------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------------------------------------------
All files              |   96.63 |     91.7 |   98.96 |   96.71 |
 create-from-config.ts |    95.6 |    88.88 |   97.22 |   95.94 | 248,308,327,367,432,579,609,836,857,882,943
 create-from-env.ts    |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
 diag.ts               |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
 sdk.ts                |    97.7 |    97.75 |     100 |    97.7 | 123,304,430
 semconv.ts            |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
 start.ts              |   96.66 |    89.65 |     100 |   96.66 | 188,191,194
 utils.ts              |   96.67 |    91.02 |     100 |   96.57 | 140,146,185,189-192,372,542,567,576-577
-----------------------|---------|----------|---------|---------|---------------------------------------------

• Still good coverage numbers.
• No changes in utils.ts (the same lines are uncovered, the % Stmts dropped because there are fewer lines in utils.ts now)
• create-from-config.ts: % Stmts slightly better. More "Uncovered Lines", but every one added is a default: ... block of a case statement. I can add tests for those, but didn't seem necessary.

[trentm]

Reviewer note: Sorry, I know reviewing this file will be tedious. I both moved and improved functionality that was in "utils.ts". For example getMeterViewsFromConfiguration() became createViewOptionsFromConfig() in this file.

[trentm]

Reviewer note: We are now strictly requiring that TLS files exist.