fix(ottl): enforce valid types for setters in contexts #43505
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Description
Introduce a common utility to check for the expected type and returns a consistent error message.
Also applies the use of this utility to ctxscope, ctxlog and ctxmetric.
Link to tracking issue
Fixes #40198
Testing
Adds testing for the new utility, will address any tests whose behavior is changed by this propagation of error that didn't exist before.
TODO
As it is now, the PR changes some but not all setters, I can either apply them all here or create a followup PR with more refactorings.
Alternate designs
Introducing a new helper in ctxerror was considered but it can be done at a later stage, as it requires consensus on the set of metadata that such helper would require or optional (e.g. context name, path segment).