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diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/__init__.py b/os_net_config/openstack/__init__.py
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diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/__init__.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/__init__.py
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+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+import six
+
+
+six.add_move(six.MovedModule('mox', 'mox', 'mox3.mox'))
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/gettextutils.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/gettextutils.py
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+# Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+# Copyright 2013 IBM Corp.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""
+gettext for openstack-common modules.
+
+Usual usage in an openstack.common module:
+
+    from os_net_config.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+"""
+
+import copy
+import functools
+import gettext
+import locale
+from logging import handlers
+import os
+
+from babel import localedata
+import six
+
+_AVAILABLE_LANGUAGES = {}
+
+# FIXME(dhellmann): Remove this when moving to oslo.i18n.
+USE_LAZY = False
+
+
+class TranslatorFactory(object):
+    """Create translator functions
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, domain, lazy=False, localedir=None):
+        """Establish a set of translation functions for the domain.
+
+        :param domain: Name of translation domain,
+                       specifying a message catalog.
+        :type domain: str
+        :param lazy: Delays translation until a message is emitted.
+                     Defaults to False.
+        :type lazy: Boolean
+        :param localedir: Directory with translation catalogs.
+        :type localedir: str
+        """
+        self.domain = domain
+        self.lazy = lazy
+        if localedir is None:
+            localedir = os.environ.get(domain.upper() + '_LOCALEDIR')
+        self.localedir = localedir
+
+    def _make_translation_func(self, domain=None):
+        """Return a new translation function ready for use.
+
+        Takes into account whether or not lazy translation is being
+        done.
+
+        The domain can be specified to override the default from the
+        factory, but the localedir from the factory is always used
+        because we assume the log-level translation catalogs are
+        installed in the same directory as the main application
+        catalog.
+
+        """
+        if domain is None:
+            domain = self.domain
+        if self.lazy:
+            return functools.partial(Message, domain=domain)
+        t = gettext.translation(
+            domain,
+            localedir=self.localedir,
+            fallback=True,
+        )
+        if six.PY3:
+            return t.gettext
+        return t.ugettext
+
+    @property
+    def primary(self):
+        "The default translation function."
+        return self._make_translation_func()
+
+    def _make_log_translation_func(self, level):
+        return self._make_translation_func(self.domain + '-log-' + level)
+
+    @property
+    def log_info(self):
+        "Translate info-level log messages."
+        return self._make_log_translation_func('info')
+
+    @property
+    def log_warning(self):
+        "Translate warning-level log messages."
+        return self._make_log_translation_func('warning')
+
+    @property
+    def log_error(self):
+        "Translate error-level log messages."
+        return self._make_log_translation_func('error')
+
+    @property
+    def log_critical(self):
+        "Translate critical-level log messages."
+        return self._make_log_translation_func('critical')
+
+
+# NOTE(dhellmann): When this module moves out of the incubator into
+# oslo.i18n, these global variables can be moved to an integration
+# module within each application.
+
+# Create the global translation functions.
+_translators = TranslatorFactory('os_net_config')
+
+# The primary translation function using the well-known name "_"
+_ = _translators.primary
+
+# Translators for log levels.
+#
+# The abbreviated names are meant to reflect the usual use of a short
+# name like '_'. The "L" is for "log" and the other letter comes from
+# the level.
+_LI = _translators.log_info
+_LW = _translators.log_warning
+_LE = _translators.log_error
+_LC = _translators.log_critical
+
+# NOTE(dhellmann): End of globals that will move to the application's
+# integration module.
+
+
+def enable_lazy():
+    """Convenience function for configuring _() to use lazy gettext
+
+    Call this at the start of execution to enable the gettextutils._
+    function to use lazy gettext functionality. This is useful if
+    your project is importing _ directly instead of using the
+    gettextutils.install() way of importing the _ function.
+    """
+    # FIXME(dhellmann): This function will be removed in oslo.i18n,
+    # because the TranslatorFactory makes it superfluous.
+    global _, _LI, _LW, _LE, _LC, USE_LAZY
+    tf = TranslatorFactory('os_net_config', lazy=True)
+    _ = tf.primary
+    _LI = tf.log_info
+    _LW = tf.log_warning
+    _LE = tf.log_error
+    _LC = tf.log_critical
+    USE_LAZY = True
+
+
+def install(domain, lazy=False):
+    """Install a _() function using the given translation domain.
+
+    Given a translation domain, install a _() function using gettext's
+    install() function.
+
+    The main difference from gettext.install() is that we allow
+    overriding the default localedir (e.g. /usr/share/locale) using
+    a translation-domain-specific environment variable (e.g.
+    NOVA_LOCALEDIR).
+
+    :param domain: the translation domain
+    :param lazy: indicates whether or not to install the lazy _() function.
+                 The lazy _() introduces a way to do deferred translation
+                 of messages by installing a _ that builds Message objects,
+                 instead of strings, which can then be lazily translated into
+                 any available locale.
+    """
+    if lazy:
+        from six import moves
+        tf = TranslatorFactory(domain, lazy=True)
+        moves.builtins.__dict__['_'] = tf.primary
+    else:
+        localedir = '%s_LOCALEDIR' % domain.upper()
+        if six.PY3:
+            gettext.install(domain,
+                            localedir=os.environ.get(localedir))
+        else:
+            gettext.install(domain,
+                            localedir=os.environ.get(localedir),
+                            unicode=True)
+
+
+class Message(six.text_type):
+    """A Message object is a unicode object that can be translated.
+
+    Translation of Message is done explicitly using the translate() method.
+    For all non-translation intents and purposes, a Message is simply unicode,
+    and can be treated as such.
+    """
+
+    def __new__(cls, msgid, msgtext=None, params=None,
+                domain='os_net_config', *args):
+        """Create a new Message object.
+
+        In order for translation to work gettext requires a message ID, this
+        msgid will be used as the base unicode text. It is also possible
+        for the msgid and the base unicode text to be different by passing
+        the msgtext parameter.
+        """
+        # If the base msgtext is not given, we use the default translation
+        # of the msgid (which is in English) just in case the system locale is
+        # not English, so that the base text will be in that locale by default.
+        if not msgtext:
+            msgtext = Message._translate_msgid(msgid, domain)
+        # We want to initialize the parent unicode with the actual object that
+        # would have been plain unicode if 'Message' was not enabled.
+        msg = super(Message, cls).__new__(cls, msgtext)
+        msg.msgid = msgid
+        msg.domain = domain
+        msg.params = params
+        return msg
+
+    def translate(self, desired_locale=None):
+        """Translate this message to the desired locale.
+
+        :param desired_locale: The desired locale to translate the message to,
+                               if no locale is provided the message will be
+                               translated to the system's default locale.
+
+        :returns: the translated message in unicode
+        """
+
+        translated_message = Message._translate_msgid(self.msgid,
+                                                      self.domain,
+                                                      desired_locale)
+        if self.params is None:
+            # No need for more translation
+            return translated_message
+
+        # This Message object may have been formatted with one or more
+        # Message objects as substitution arguments, given either as a single
+        # argument, part of a tuple, or as one or more values in a dictionary.
+        # When translating this Message we need to translate those Messages too
+        translated_params = _translate_args(self.params, desired_locale)
+
+        translated_message = translated_message % translated_params
+
+        return translated_message
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _translate_msgid(msgid, domain, desired_locale=None):
+        if not desired_locale:
+            system_locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()
+            # If the system locale is not available to the runtime use English
+            if not system_locale[0]:
+                desired_locale = 'en_US'
+            else:
+                desired_locale = system_locale[0]
+
+        locale_dir = os.environ.get(domain.upper() + '_LOCALEDIR')
+        lang = gettext.translation(domain,
+                                   localedir=locale_dir,
+                                   languages=[desired_locale],
+                                   fallback=True)
+        if six.PY3:
+            translator = lang.gettext
+        else:
+            translator = lang.ugettext
+
+        translated_message = translator(msgid)
+        return translated_message
+
+    def __mod__(self, other):
+        # When we mod a Message we want the actual operation to be performed
+        # by the parent class (i.e. unicode()), the only thing  we do here is
+        # save the original msgid and the parameters in case of a translation
+        params = self._sanitize_mod_params(other)
+        unicode_mod = super(Message, self).__mod__(params)
+        modded = Message(self.msgid,
+                         msgtext=unicode_mod,
+                         params=params,
+                         domain=self.domain)
+        return modded
+
+    def _sanitize_mod_params(self, other):
+        """Sanitize the object being modded with this Message.
+
+        - Add support for modding 'None' so translation supports it
+        - Trim the modded object, which can be a large dictionary, to only
+        those keys that would actually be used in a translation
+        - Snapshot the object being modded, in case the message is
+        translated, it will be used as it was when the Message was created
+        """
+        if other is None:
+            params = (other,)
+        elif isinstance(other, dict):
+            # Merge the dictionaries
+            # Copy each item in case one does not support deep copy.
+            params = {}
+            if isinstance(self.params, dict):
+                for key, val in self.params.items():
+                    params[key] = self._copy_param(val)
+            for key, val in other.items():
+                params[key] = self._copy_param(val)
+        else:
+            params = self._copy_param(other)
+        return params
+
+    def _copy_param(self, param):
+        try:
+            return copy.deepcopy(param)
+        except Exception:
+            # Fallback to casting to unicode this will handle the
+            # python code-like objects that can't be deep-copied
+            return six.text_type(param)
+
+    def __add__(self, other):
+        msg = _('Message objects do not support addition.')
+        raise TypeError(msg)
+
+    def __radd__(self, other):
+        return self.__add__(other)
+
+    if six.PY2:
+        def __str__(self):
+            # NOTE(luisg): Logging in python 2.6 tries to str() log records,
+            # and it expects specifically a UnicodeError in order to proceed.
+            msg = _('Message objects do not support str() because they may '
+                    'contain non-ascii characters. '
+                    'Please use unicode() or translate() instead.')
+            raise UnicodeError(msg)
+
+
+def get_available_languages(domain):
+    """Lists the available languages for the given translation domain.
+
+    :param domain: the domain to get languages for
+    """
+    if domain in _AVAILABLE_LANGUAGES:
+        return copy.copy(_AVAILABLE_LANGUAGES[domain])
+
+    localedir = '%s_LOCALEDIR' % domain.upper()
+    find = lambda x: gettext.find(domain,
+                                  localedir=os.environ.get(localedir),
+                                  languages=[x])
+
+    # NOTE(mrodden): en_US should always be available (and first in case
+    # order matters) since our in-line message strings are en_US
+    language_list = ['en_US']
+    # NOTE(luisg): Babel <1.0 used a function called list(), which was
+    # renamed to locale_identifiers() in >=1.0, the requirements master list
+    # requires >=0.9.6, uncapped, so defensively work with both. We can remove
+    # this check when the master list updates to >=1.0, and update all projects
+    list_identifiers = (getattr(localedata, 'list', None) or
+                        getattr(localedata, 'locale_identifiers'))
+    locale_identifiers = list_identifiers()
+
+    for i in locale_identifiers:
+        if find(i) is not None:
+            language_list.append(i)
+
+    # NOTE(luisg): Babel>=1.0,<1.3 has a bug where some OpenStack supported
+    # locales (e.g. 'zh_CN', and 'zh_TW') aren't supported even though they
+    # are perfectly legitimate locales:
+    #     https://github.com/mitsuhiko/babel/issues/37
+    # In Babel 1.3 they fixed the bug and they support these locales, but
+    # they are still not explicitly "listed" by locale_identifiers().
+    # That is  why we add the locales here explicitly if necessary so that
+    # they are listed as supported.
+    aliases = {'zh': 'zh_CN',
+               'zh_Hant_HK': 'zh_HK',
+               'zh_Hant': 'zh_TW',
+               'fil': 'tl_PH'}
+    for (locale, alias) in six.iteritems(aliases):
+        if locale in language_list and alias not in language_list:
+            language_list.append(alias)
+
+    _AVAILABLE_LANGUAGES[domain] = language_list
+    return copy.copy(language_list)
+
+
+def translate(obj, desired_locale=None):
+    """Gets the translated unicode representation of the given object.
+
+    If the object is not translatable it is returned as-is.
+    If the locale is None the object is translated to the system locale.
+
+    :param obj: the object to translate
+    :param desired_locale: the locale to translate the message to, if None the
+                           default system locale will be used
+    :returns: the translated object in unicode, or the original object if
+              it could not be translated
+    """
+    message = obj
+    if not isinstance(message, Message):
+        # If the object to translate is not already translatable,
+        # let's first get its unicode representation
+        message = six.text_type(obj)
+    if isinstance(message, Message):
+        # Even after unicoding() we still need to check if we are
+        # running with translatable unicode before translating
+        return message.translate(desired_locale)
+    return obj
+
+
+def _translate_args(args, desired_locale=None):
+    """Translates all the translatable elements of the given arguments object.
+
+    This method is used for translating the translatable values in method
+    arguments which include values of tuples or dictionaries.
+    If the object is not a tuple or a dictionary the object itself is
+    translated if it is translatable.
+
+    If the locale is None the object is translated to the system locale.
+
+    :param args: the args to translate
+    :param desired_locale: the locale to translate the args to, if None the
+                           default system locale will be used
+    :returns: a new args object with the translated contents of the original
+    """
+    if isinstance(args, tuple):
+        return tuple(translate(v, desired_locale) for v in args)
+    if isinstance(args, dict):
+        translated_dict = {}
+        for (k, v) in six.iteritems(args):
+            translated_v = translate(v, desired_locale)
+            translated_dict[k] = translated_v
+        return translated_dict
+    return translate(args, desired_locale)
+
+
+class TranslationHandler(handlers.MemoryHandler):
+    """Handler that translates records before logging them.
+
+    The TranslationHandler takes a locale and a target logging.Handler object
+    to forward LogRecord objects to after translating them. This handler
+    depends on Message objects being logged, instead of regular strings.
+
+    The handler can be configured declaratively in the logging.conf as follows:
+
+        [handlers]
+        keys = translatedlog, translator
+
+        [handler_translatedlog]
+        class = handlers.WatchedFileHandler
+        args = ('/var/log/api-localized.log',)
+        formatter = context
+
+        [handler_translator]
+        class = openstack.common.log.TranslationHandler
+        target = translatedlog
+        args = ('zh_CN',)
+
+    If the specified locale is not available in the system, the handler will
+    log in the default locale.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, locale=None, target=None):
+        """Initialize a TranslationHandler
+
+        :param locale: locale to use for translating messages
+        :param target: logging.Handler object to forward
+                       LogRecord objects to after translation
+        """
+        # NOTE(luisg): In order to allow this handler to be a wrapper for
+        # other handlers, such as a FileHandler, and still be able to
+        # configure it using logging.conf, this handler has to extend
+        # MemoryHandler because only the MemoryHandlers' logging.conf
+        # parsing is implemented such that it accepts a target handler.
+        handlers.MemoryHandler.__init__(self, capacity=0, target=target)
+        self.locale = locale
+
+    def setFormatter(self, fmt):
+        self.target.setFormatter(fmt)
+
+    def emit(self, record):
+        # We save the message from the original record to restore it
+        # after translation, so other handlers are not affected by this
+        original_msg = record.msg
+        original_args = record.args
+
+        try:
+            self._translate_and_log_record(record)
+        finally:
+            record.msg = original_msg
+            record.args = original_args
+
+    def _translate_and_log_record(self, record):
+        record.msg = translate(record.msg, self.locale)
+
+        # In addition to translating the message, we also need to translate
+        # arguments that were passed to the log method that were not part
+        # of the main message e.g., log.info(_('Some message %s'), this_one))
+        record.args = _translate_args(record.args, self.locale)
+
+        self.target.emit(record)
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/importutils.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/importutils.py
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+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack Foundation.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""
+Import related utilities and helper functions.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import traceback
+
+
+def import_class(import_str):
+    """Returns a class from a string including module and class."""
+    mod_str, _sep, class_str = import_str.rpartition('.')
+    __import__(mod_str)
+    try:
+        return getattr(sys.modules[mod_str], class_str)
+    except AttributeError:
+        raise ImportError('Class %s cannot be found (%s)' %
+                          (class_str,
+                           traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())))
+
+
+def import_object(import_str, *args, **kwargs):
+    """Import a class and return an instance of it."""
+    return import_class(import_str)(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def import_object_ns(name_space, import_str, *args, **kwargs):
+    """Tries to import object from default namespace.
+
+    Imports a class and return an instance of it, first by trying
+    to find the class in a default namespace, then failing back to
+    a full path if not found in the default namespace.
+    """
+    import_value = "%s.%s" % (name_space, import_str)
+    try:
+        return import_class(import_value)(*args, **kwargs)
+    except ImportError:
+        return import_class(import_str)(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def import_module(import_str):
+    """Import a module."""
+    __import__(import_str)
+    return sys.modules[import_str]
+
+
+def import_versioned_module(version, submodule=None):
+    module = 'os_net_config.v%s' % version
+    if submodule:
+        module = '.'.join((module, submodule))
+    return import_module(module)
+
+
+def try_import(import_str, default=None):
+    """Try to import a module and if it fails return default."""
+    try:
+        return import_module(import_str)
+    except ImportError:
+        return default
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/jsonutils.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/jsonutils.py
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+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# Copyright 2011 Justin Santa Barbara
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+'''
+JSON related utilities.
+
+This module provides a few things:
+
+    1) A handy function for getting an object down to something that can be
+    JSON serialized.  See to_primitive().
+
+    2) Wrappers around loads() and dumps().  The dumps() wrapper will
+    automatically use to_primitive() for you if needed.
+
+    3) This sets up anyjson to use the loads() and dumps() wrappers if anyjson
+    is available.
+'''
+
+
+import codecs
+import datetime
+import functools
+import inspect
+import itertools
+import sys
+
+if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
+    # On Python <= 2.6, json module is not C boosted, so try to use
+    # simplejson module if available
+    try:
+        import simplejson as json
+    except ImportError:
+        import json
+else:
+    import json
+
+import six
+import six.moves.xmlrpc_client as xmlrpclib
+
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import gettextutils
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import importutils
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import strutils
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import timeutils
+
+netaddr = importutils.try_import("netaddr")
+
+_nasty_type_tests = [inspect.ismodule, inspect.isclass, inspect.ismethod,
+                     inspect.isfunction, inspect.isgeneratorfunction,
+                     inspect.isgenerator, inspect.istraceback, inspect.isframe,
+                     inspect.iscode, inspect.isbuiltin, inspect.isroutine,
+                     inspect.isabstract]
+
+_simple_types = (six.string_types + six.integer_types
+                 + (type(None), bool, float))
+
+
+def to_primitive(value, convert_instances=False, convert_datetime=True,
+                 level=0, max_depth=3):
+    """Convert a complex object into primitives.
+
+    Handy for JSON serialization. We can optionally handle instances,
+    but since this is a recursive function, we could have cyclical
+    data structures.
+
+    To handle cyclical data structures we could track the actual objects
+    visited in a set, but not all objects are hashable. Instead we just
+    track the depth of the object inspections and don't go too deep.
+
+    Therefore, convert_instances=True is lossy ... be aware.
+
+    """
+    # handle obvious types first - order of basic types determined by running
+    # full tests on nova project, resulting in the following counts:
+    # 572754 <type 'NoneType'>
+    # 460353 <type 'int'>
+    # 379632 <type 'unicode'>
+    # 274610 <type 'str'>
+    # 199918 <type 'dict'>
+    # 114200 <type 'datetime.datetime'>
+    #  51817 <type 'bool'>
+    #  26164 <type 'list'>
+    #   6491 <type 'float'>
+    #    283 <type 'tuple'>
+    #     19 <type 'long'>
+    if isinstance(value, _simple_types):
+        return value
+
+    if isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
+        if convert_datetime:
+            return timeutils.strtime(value)
+        else:
+            return value
+
+    # value of itertools.count doesn't get caught by nasty_type_tests
+    # and results in infinite loop when list(value) is called.
+    if type(value) == itertools.count:
+        return six.text_type(value)
+
+    # FIXME(vish): Workaround for LP bug 852095. Without this workaround,
+    #              tests that raise an exception in a mocked method that
+    #              has a @wrap_exception with a notifier will fail. If
+    #              we up the dependency to 0.5.4 (when it is released) we
+    #              can remove this workaround.
+    if getattr(value, '__module__', None) == 'mox':
+        return 'mock'
+
+    if level > max_depth:
+        return '?'
+
+    # The try block may not be necessary after the class check above,
+    # but just in case ...
+    try:
+        recursive = functools.partial(to_primitive,
+                                      convert_instances=convert_instances,
+                                      convert_datetime=convert_datetime,
+                                      level=level,
+                                      max_depth=max_depth)
+        if isinstance(value, dict):
+            return dict((k, recursive(v)) for k, v in six.iteritems(value))
+        elif isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
+            return [recursive(lv) for lv in value]
+
+        # It's not clear why xmlrpclib created their own DateTime type, but
+        # for our purposes, make it a datetime type which is explicitly
+        # handled
+        if isinstance(value, xmlrpclib.DateTime):
+            value = datetime.datetime(*tuple(value.timetuple())[:6])
+
+        if convert_datetime and isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
+            return timeutils.strtime(value)
+        elif isinstance(value, gettextutils.Message):
+            return value.data
+        elif hasattr(value, 'iteritems'):
+            return recursive(dict(value.iteritems()), level=level + 1)
+        elif hasattr(value, '__iter__'):
+            return recursive(list(value))
+        elif convert_instances and hasattr(value, '__dict__'):
+            # Likely an instance of something. Watch for cycles.
+            # Ignore class member vars.
+            return recursive(value.__dict__, level=level + 1)
+        elif netaddr and isinstance(value, netaddr.IPAddress):
+            return six.text_type(value)
+        else:
+            if any(test(value) for test in _nasty_type_tests):
+                return six.text_type(value)
+            return value
+    except TypeError:
+        # Class objects are tricky since they may define something like
+        # __iter__ defined but it isn't callable as list().
+        return six.text_type(value)
+
+
+def dumps(value, default=to_primitive, **kwargs):
+    return json.dumps(value, default=default, **kwargs)
+
+
+def loads(s, encoding='utf-8', **kwargs):
+    return json.loads(strutils.safe_decode(s, encoding), **kwargs)
+
+
+def load(fp, encoding='utf-8', **kwargs):
+    return json.load(codecs.getreader(encoding)(fp), **kwargs)
+
+
+try:
+    import anyjson
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+else:
+    anyjson._modules.append((__name__, 'dumps', TypeError,
+                                       'loads', ValueError, 'load'))
+    anyjson.force_implementation(__name__)
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/local.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/local.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0819d5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/os_net_config/openstack/common/local.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack Foundation.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""Local storage of variables using weak references"""
+
+import threading
+import weakref
+
+
+class WeakLocal(threading.local):
+    def __getattribute__(self, attr):
+        rval = super(WeakLocal, self).__getattribute__(attr)
+        if rval:
+            # NOTE(mikal): this bit is confusing. What is stored is a weak
+            # reference, not the value itself. We therefore need to lookup
+            # the weak reference and return the inner value here.
+            rval = rval()
+        return rval
+
+    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
+        value = weakref.ref(value)
+        return super(WeakLocal, self).__setattr__(attr, value)
+
+
+# NOTE(mikal): the name "store" should be deprecated in the future
+store = WeakLocal()
+
+# A "weak" store uses weak references and allows an object to fall out of scope
+# when it falls out of scope in the code that uses the thread local storage. A
+# "strong" store will hold a reference to the object so that it never falls out
+# of scope.
+weak_store = WeakLocal()
+strong_store = threading.local()
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/log.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/log.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6579a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/os_net_config/openstack/common/log.py
@@ -0,0 +1,723 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack Foundation.
+# Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
+# Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""OpenStack logging handler.
+
+This module adds to logging functionality by adding the option to specify
+a context object when calling the various log methods.  If the context object
+is not specified, default formatting is used. Additionally, an instance uuid
+may be passed as part of the log message, which is intended to make it easier
+for admins to find messages related to a specific instance.
+
+It also allows setting of formatting information through conf.
+
+"""
+
+import inspect
+import itertools
+import logging
+import logging.config
+import logging.handlers
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import traceback
+
+from oslo.config import cfg
+import six
+from six import moves
+
+from os_net_config.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import importutils
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import jsonutils
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import local
+
+
+_DEFAULT_LOG_DATE_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
+
+_SANITIZE_KEYS = ['adminPass', 'admin_pass', 'password', 'admin_password']
+
+# NOTE(ldbragst): Let's build a list of regex objects using the list of
+# _SANITIZE_KEYS we already have. This way, we only have to add the new key
+# to the list of _SANITIZE_KEYS and we can generate regular expressions
+# for XML and JSON automatically.
+_SANITIZE_PATTERNS = []
+_FORMAT_PATTERNS = [r'(%(key)s\s*[=]\s*[\"\']).*?([\"\'])',
+                    r'(<%(key)s>).*?(</%(key)s>)',
+                    r'([\"\']%(key)s[\"\']\s*:\s*[\"\']).*?([\"\'])',
+                    r'([\'"].*?%(key)s[\'"]\s*:\s*u?[\'"]).*?([\'"])',
+                    r'([\'"].*?%(key)s[\'"]\s*,\s*\'--?[A-z]+\'\s*,\s*u?[\'"])'
+                    '.*?([\'"])',
+                    r'(%(key)s\s*--?[A-z]+\s*).*?([\s])']
+
+for key in _SANITIZE_KEYS:
+    for pattern in _FORMAT_PATTERNS:
+        reg_ex = re.compile(pattern % {'key': key}, re.DOTALL)
+        _SANITIZE_PATTERNS.append(reg_ex)
+
+
+common_cli_opts = [
+    cfg.BoolOpt('debug',
+                short='d',
+                default=False,
+                help='Print debugging output (set logging level to '
+                     'DEBUG instead of default WARNING level).'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('verbose',
+                short='v',
+                default=False,
+                help='Print more verbose output (set logging level to '
+                     'INFO instead of default WARNING level).'),
+]
+
+logging_cli_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-config-append',
+               metavar='PATH',
+               deprecated_name='log-config',
+               help='The name of a logging configuration file. This file '
+                    'is appended to any existing logging configuration '
+                    'files. For details about logging configuration files, '
+                    'see the Python logging module documentation.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-format',
+               metavar='FORMAT',
+               help='DEPRECATED. '
+                    'A logging.Formatter log message format string which may '
+                    'use any of the available logging.LogRecord attributes. '
+                    'This option is deprecated.  Please use '
+                    'logging_context_format_string and '
+                    'logging_default_format_string instead.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-date-format',
+               default=_DEFAULT_LOG_DATE_FORMAT,
+               metavar='DATE_FORMAT',
+               help='Format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. '
+                    'Default: %(default)s .'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-file',
+               metavar='PATH',
+               deprecated_name='logfile',
+               help='(Optional) Name of log file to output to. '
+                    'If no default is set, logging will go to stdout.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('log-dir',
+               deprecated_name='logdir',
+               help='(Optional) The base directory used for relative '
+                    '--log-file paths.'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('use-syslog',
+                default=False,
+                help='Use syslog for logging. '
+                     'Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED during I, '
+                     'and will change in J to honor RFC5424.'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('use-syslog-rfc-format',
+                # TODO(bogdando) remove or use True after existing
+                #    syslog format deprecation in J
+                default=False,
+                help='(Optional) Enables or disables syslog rfc5424 format '
+                     'for logging. If enabled, prefixes the MSG part of the '
+                     'syslog message with APP-NAME (RFC5424). The '
+                     'format without the APP-NAME is deprecated in I, '
+                     'and will be removed in J.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('syslog-log-facility',
+               default='LOG_USER',
+               help='Syslog facility to receive log lines.')
+]
+
+generic_log_opts = [
+    cfg.BoolOpt('use_stderr',
+                default=True,
+                help='Log output to standard error.')
+]
+
+log_opts = [
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_context_format_string',
+               default='%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d %(levelname)s '
+                       '%(name)s [%(request_id)s %(user_identity)s] '
+                       '%(instance)s%(message)s',
+               help='Format string to use for log messages with context.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_default_format_string',
+               default='%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d %(levelname)s '
+                       '%(name)s [-] %(instance)s%(message)s',
+               help='Format string to use for log messages without context.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_debug_format_suffix',
+               default='%(funcName)s %(pathname)s:%(lineno)d',
+               help='Data to append to log format when level is DEBUG.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('logging_exception_prefix',
+               default='%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d TRACE %(name)s '
+               '%(instance)s',
+               help='Prefix each line of exception output with this format.'),
+    cfg.ListOpt('default_log_levels',
+                default=[
+                    'amqp=WARN',
+                    'amqplib=WARN',
+                    'boto=WARN',
+                    'qpid=WARN',
+                    'sqlalchemy=WARN',
+                    'suds=INFO',
+                    'oslo.messaging=INFO',
+                    'iso8601=WARN',
+                    'requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool=WARN'
+                ],
+                help='List of logger=LEVEL pairs.'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('publish_errors',
+                default=False,
+                help='Enables or disables publication of error events.'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('fatal_deprecations',
+                default=False,
+                help='Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations.'),
+
+    # NOTE(mikal): there are two options here because sometimes we are handed
+    # a full instance (and could include more information), and other times we
+    # are just handed a UUID for the instance.
+    cfg.StrOpt('instance_format',
+               default='[instance: %(uuid)s] ',
+               help='The format for an instance that is passed with the log '
+                    'message. '),
+    cfg.StrOpt('instance_uuid_format',
+               default='[instance: %(uuid)s] ',
+               help='The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the '
+                    'log message. '),
+]
+
+CONF = cfg.CONF
+CONF.register_cli_opts(common_cli_opts)
+CONF.register_cli_opts(logging_cli_opts)
+CONF.register_opts(generic_log_opts)
+CONF.register_opts(log_opts)
+
+# our new audit level
+# NOTE(jkoelker) Since we synthesized an audit level, make the logging
+#                module aware of it so it acts like other levels.
+logging.AUDIT = logging.INFO + 1
+logging.addLevelName(logging.AUDIT, 'AUDIT')
+
+
+try:
+    NullHandler = logging.NullHandler
+except AttributeError:  # NOTE(jkoelker) NullHandler added in Python 2.7
+    class NullHandler(logging.Handler):
+        def handle(self, record):
+            pass
+
+        def emit(self, record):
+            pass
+
+        def createLock(self):
+            self.lock = None
+
+
+def _dictify_context(context):
+    if context is None:
+        return None
+    if not isinstance(context, dict) and getattr(context, 'to_dict', None):
+        context = context.to_dict()
+    return context
+
+
+def _get_binary_name():
+    return os.path.basename(inspect.stack()[-1][1])
+
+
+def _get_log_file_path(binary=None):
+    logfile = CONF.log_file
+    logdir = CONF.log_dir
+
+    if logfile and not logdir:
+        return logfile
+
+    if logfile and logdir:
+        return os.path.join(logdir, logfile)
+
+    if logdir:
+        binary = binary or _get_binary_name()
+        return '%s.log' % (os.path.join(logdir, binary),)
+
+    return None
+
+
+def mask_password(message, secret="***"):
+    """Replace password with 'secret' in message.
+
+    :param message: The string which includes security information.
+    :param secret: value with which to replace passwords.
+    :returns: The unicode value of message with the password fields masked.
+
+    For example:
+
+    >>> mask_password("'adminPass' : 'aaaaa'")
+    "'adminPass' : '***'"
+    >>> mask_password("'admin_pass' : 'aaaaa'")
+    "'admin_pass' : '***'"
+    >>> mask_password('"password" : "aaaaa"')
+    '"password" : "***"'
+    >>> mask_password("'original_password' : 'aaaaa'")
+    "'original_password' : '***'"
+    >>> mask_password("u'original_password' :   u'aaaaa'")
+    "u'original_password' :   u'***'"
+    """
+    message = six.text_type(message)
+
+    # NOTE(ldbragst): Check to see if anything in message contains any key
+    # specified in _SANITIZE_KEYS, if not then just return the message since
+    # we don't have to mask any passwords.
+    if not any(key in message for key in _SANITIZE_KEYS):
+        return message
+
+    secret = r'\g<1>' + secret + r'\g<2>'
+    for pattern in _SANITIZE_PATTERNS:
+        message = re.sub(pattern, secret, message)
+    return message
+
+
+class BaseLoggerAdapter(logging.LoggerAdapter):
+
+    def audit(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.log(logging.AUDIT, msg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+
+class LazyAdapter(BaseLoggerAdapter):
+    def __init__(self, name='unknown', version='unknown'):
+        self._logger = None
+        self.extra = {}
+        self.name = name
+        self.version = version
+
+    @property
+    def logger(self):
+        if not self._logger:
+            self._logger = getLogger(self.name, self.version)
+        return self._logger
+
+
+class ContextAdapter(BaseLoggerAdapter):
+    warn = logging.LoggerAdapter.warning
+
+    def __init__(self, logger, project_name, version_string):
+        self.logger = logger
+        self.project = project_name
+        self.version = version_string
+        self._deprecated_messages_sent = dict()
+
+    @property
+    def handlers(self):
+        return self.logger.handlers
+
+    def deprecated(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Call this method when a deprecated feature is used.
+
+        If the system is configured for fatal deprecations then the message
+        is logged at the 'critical' level and :class:`DeprecatedConfig` will
+        be raised.
+
+        Otherwise, the message will be logged (once) at the 'warn' level.
+
+        :raises: :class:`DeprecatedConfig` if the system is configured for
+                 fatal deprecations.
+
+        """
+        stdmsg = _("Deprecated: %s") % msg
+        if CONF.fatal_deprecations:
+            self.critical(stdmsg, *args, **kwargs)
+            raise DeprecatedConfig(msg=stdmsg)
+
+        # Using a list because a tuple with dict can't be stored in a set.
+        sent_args = self._deprecated_messages_sent.setdefault(msg, list())
+
+        if args in sent_args:
+            # Already logged this message, so don't log it again.
+            return
+
+        sent_args.append(args)
+        self.warn(stdmsg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def process(self, msg, kwargs):
+        # NOTE(mrodden): catch any Message/other object and
+        #                coerce to unicode before they can get
+        #                to the python logging and possibly
+        #                cause string encoding trouble
+        if not isinstance(msg, six.string_types):
+            msg = six.text_type(msg)
+
+        if 'extra' not in kwargs:
+            kwargs['extra'] = {}
+        extra = kwargs['extra']
+
+        context = kwargs.pop('context', None)
+        if not context:
+            context = getattr(local.store, 'context', None)
+        if context:
+            extra.update(_dictify_context(context))
+
+        instance = kwargs.pop('instance', None)
+        instance_uuid = (extra.get('instance_uuid') or
+                         kwargs.pop('instance_uuid', None))
+        instance_extra = ''
+        if instance:
+            instance_extra = CONF.instance_format % instance
+        elif instance_uuid:
+            instance_extra = (CONF.instance_uuid_format
+                              % {'uuid': instance_uuid})
+        extra['instance'] = instance_extra
+
+        extra.setdefault('user_identity', kwargs.pop('user_identity', None))
+
+        extra['project'] = self.project
+        extra['version'] = self.version
+        extra['extra'] = extra.copy()
+        return msg, kwargs
+
+
+class JSONFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+    def __init__(self, fmt=None, datefmt=None):
+        # NOTE(jkoelker) we ignore the fmt argument, but its still there
+        #                since logging.config.fileConfig passes it.
+        self.datefmt = datefmt
+
+    def formatException(self, ei, strip_newlines=True):
+        lines = traceback.format_exception(*ei)
+        if strip_newlines:
+            lines = [moves.filter(
+                lambda x: x,
+                line.rstrip().splitlines()) for line in lines]
+            lines = list(itertools.chain(*lines))
+        return lines
+
+    def format(self, record):
+        message = {'message': record.getMessage(),
+                   'asctime': self.formatTime(record, self.datefmt),
+                   'name': record.name,
+                   'msg': record.msg,
+                   'args': record.args,
+                   'levelname': record.levelname,
+                   'levelno': record.levelno,
+                   'pathname': record.pathname,
+                   'filename': record.filename,
+                   'module': record.module,
+                   'lineno': record.lineno,
+                   'funcname': record.funcName,
+                   'created': record.created,
+                   'msecs': record.msecs,
+                   'relative_created': record.relativeCreated,
+                   'thread': record.thread,
+                   'thread_name': record.threadName,
+                   'process_name': record.processName,
+                   'process': record.process,
+                   'traceback': None}
+
+        if hasattr(record, 'extra'):
+            message['extra'] = record.extra
+
+        if record.exc_info:
+            message['traceback'] = self.formatException(record.exc_info)
+
+        return jsonutils.dumps(message)
+
+
+def _create_logging_excepthook(product_name):
+    def logging_excepthook(exc_type, value, tb):
+        extra = {'exc_info': (exc_type, value, tb)}
+        getLogger(product_name).critical(
+            "".join(traceback.format_exception_only(exc_type, value)),
+            **extra)
+    return logging_excepthook
+
+
+class LogConfigError(Exception):
+
+    message = _('Error loading logging config %(log_config)s: %(err_msg)s')
+
+    def __init__(self, log_config, err_msg):
+        self.log_config = log_config
+        self.err_msg = err_msg
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.message % dict(log_config=self.log_config,
+                                   err_msg=self.err_msg)
+
+
+def _load_log_config(log_config_append):
+    try:
+        logging.config.fileConfig(log_config_append,
+                                  disable_existing_loggers=False)
+    except moves.configparser.Error as exc:
+        raise LogConfigError(log_config_append, six.text_type(exc))
+
+
+def setup(product_name, version='unknown'):
+    """Setup logging."""
+    if CONF.log_config_append:
+        _load_log_config(CONF.log_config_append)
+    else:
+        _setup_logging_from_conf(product_name, version)
+    sys.excepthook = _create_logging_excepthook(product_name)
+
+
+def set_defaults(logging_context_format_string):
+    cfg.set_defaults(log_opts,
+                     logging_context_format_string=
+                     logging_context_format_string)
+
+
+def _find_facility_from_conf():
+    facility_names = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.facility_names
+    facility = getattr(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler,
+                       CONF.syslog_log_facility,
+                       None)
+
+    if facility is None and CONF.syslog_log_facility in facility_names:
+        facility = facility_names.get(CONF.syslog_log_facility)
+
+    if facility is None:
+        valid_facilities = facility_names.keys()
+        consts = ['LOG_AUTH', 'LOG_AUTHPRIV', 'LOG_CRON', 'LOG_DAEMON',
+                  'LOG_FTP', 'LOG_KERN', 'LOG_LPR', 'LOG_MAIL', 'LOG_NEWS',
+                  'LOG_AUTH', 'LOG_SYSLOG', 'LOG_USER', 'LOG_UUCP',
+                  'LOG_LOCAL0', 'LOG_LOCAL1', 'LOG_LOCAL2', 'LOG_LOCAL3',
+                  'LOG_LOCAL4', 'LOG_LOCAL5', 'LOG_LOCAL6', 'LOG_LOCAL7']
+        valid_facilities.extend(consts)
+        raise TypeError(_('syslog facility must be one of: %s') %
+                        ', '.join("'%s'" % fac
+                                  for fac in valid_facilities))
+
+    return facility
+
+
+class RFCSysLogHandler(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.binary_name = _get_binary_name()
+        # Do not use super() unless type(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler)
+        #  is 'type' (Python 2.7).
+        # Use old style calls, if the type is 'classobj' (Python 2.6)
+        logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def format(self, record):
+        # Do not use super() unless type(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler)
+        #  is 'type' (Python 2.7).
+        # Use old style calls, if the type is 'classobj' (Python 2.6)
+        msg = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.format(self, record)
+        msg = self.binary_name + ' ' + msg
+        return msg
+
+
+def _setup_logging_from_conf(project, version):
+    log_root = getLogger(None).logger
+    for handler in log_root.handlers:
+        log_root.removeHandler(handler)
+
+    if CONF.use_syslog:
+        facility = _find_facility_from_conf()
+        # TODO(bogdando) use the format provided by RFCSysLogHandler
+        #   after existing syslog format deprecation in J
+        if CONF.use_syslog_rfc_format:
+            syslog = RFCSysLogHandler(address='/dev/log',
+                                      facility=facility)
+        else:
+            syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log',
+                                                    facility=facility)
+        log_root.addHandler(syslog)
+
+    logpath = _get_log_file_path()
+    if logpath:
+        filelog = logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler(logpath)
+        log_root.addHandler(filelog)
+
+    if CONF.use_stderr:
+        streamlog = ColorHandler()
+        log_root.addHandler(streamlog)
+
+    elif not logpath:
+        # pass sys.stdout as a positional argument
+        # python2.6 calls the argument strm, in 2.7 it's stream
+        streamlog = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
+        log_root.addHandler(streamlog)
+
+    if CONF.publish_errors:
+        handler = importutils.import_object(
+            "os_net_config.openstack.common.log_handler.PublishErrorsHandler",
+            logging.ERROR)
+        log_root.addHandler(handler)
+
+    datefmt = CONF.log_date_format
+    for handler in log_root.handlers:
+        # NOTE(alaski): CONF.log_format overrides everything currently.  This
+        # should be deprecated in favor of context aware formatting.
+        if CONF.log_format:
+            handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt=CONF.log_format,
+                                                   datefmt=datefmt))
+            log_root.info('Deprecated: log_format is now deprecated and will '
+                          'be removed in the next release')
+        else:
+            handler.setFormatter(ContextFormatter(project=project,
+                                                  version=version,
+                                                  datefmt=datefmt))
+
+    if CONF.debug:
+        log_root.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    elif CONF.verbose:
+        log_root.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    else:
+        log_root.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+
+    for pair in CONF.default_log_levels:
+        mod, _sep, level_name = pair.partition('=')
+        logger = logging.getLogger(mod)
+        # NOTE(AAzza) in python2.6 Logger.setLevel doesn't convert string name
+        # to integer code.
+        if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
+            level = logging.getLevelName(level_name)
+            logger.setLevel(level)
+        else:
+            logger.setLevel(level_name)
+
+
+_loggers = {}
+
+
+def getLogger(name='unknown', version='unknown'):
+    if name not in _loggers:
+        _loggers[name] = ContextAdapter(logging.getLogger(name),
+                                        name,
+                                        version)
+    return _loggers[name]
+
+
+def getLazyLogger(name='unknown', version='unknown'):
+    """Returns lazy logger.
+
+    Creates a pass-through logger that does not create the real logger
+    until it is really needed and delegates all calls to the real logger
+    once it is created.
+    """
+    return LazyAdapter(name, version)
+
+
+class WritableLogger(object):
+    """A thin wrapper that responds to `write` and logs."""
+
+    def __init__(self, logger, level=logging.INFO):
+        self.logger = logger
+        self.level = level
+
+    def write(self, msg):
+        self.logger.log(self.level, msg.rstrip())
+
+
+class ContextFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+    """A context.RequestContext aware formatter configured through flags.
+
+    The flags used to set format strings are: logging_context_format_string
+    and logging_default_format_string.  You can also specify
+    logging_debug_format_suffix to append extra formatting if the log level is
+    debug.
+
+    For information about what variables are available for the formatter see:
+    http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#formatter
+
+    If available, uses the context value stored in TLS - local.store.context
+
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Initialize ContextFormatter instance
+
+        Takes additional keyword arguments which can be used in the message
+        format string.
+
+        :keyword project: project name
+        :type project: string
+        :keyword version: project version
+        :type version: string
+
+        """
+
+        self.project = kwargs.pop('project', 'unknown')
+        self.version = kwargs.pop('version', 'unknown')
+
+        logging.Formatter.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def format(self, record):
+        """Uses contextstring if request_id is set, otherwise default."""
+
+        # store project info
+        record.project = self.project
+        record.version = self.version
+
+        # store request info
+        context = getattr(local.store, 'context', None)
+        if context:
+            d = _dictify_context(context)
+            for k, v in d.items():
+                setattr(record, k, v)
+
+        # NOTE(sdague): default the fancier formatting params
+        # to an empty string so we don't throw an exception if
+        # they get used
+        for key in ('instance', 'color', 'user_identity'):
+            if key not in record.__dict__:
+                record.__dict__[key] = ''
+
+        if record.__dict__.get('request_id'):
+            self._fmt = CONF.logging_context_format_string
+        else:
+            self._fmt = CONF.logging_default_format_string
+
+        if (record.levelno == logging.DEBUG and
+                CONF.logging_debug_format_suffix):
+            self._fmt += " " + CONF.logging_debug_format_suffix
+
+        # Cache this on the record, Logger will respect our formatted copy
+        if record.exc_info:
+            record.exc_text = self.formatException(record.exc_info, record)
+        return logging.Formatter.format(self, record)
+
+    def formatException(self, exc_info, record=None):
+        """Format exception output with CONF.logging_exception_prefix."""
+        if not record:
+            return logging.Formatter.formatException(self, exc_info)
+
+        stringbuffer = moves.StringIO()
+        traceback.print_exception(exc_info[0], exc_info[1], exc_info[2],
+                                  None, stringbuffer)
+        lines = stringbuffer.getvalue().split('\n')
+        stringbuffer.close()
+
+        if CONF.logging_exception_prefix.find('%(asctime)') != -1:
+            record.asctime = self.formatTime(record, self.datefmt)
+
+        formatted_lines = []
+        for line in lines:
+            pl = CONF.logging_exception_prefix % record.__dict__
+            fl = '%s%s' % (pl, line)
+            formatted_lines.append(fl)
+        return '\n'.join(formatted_lines)
+
+
+class ColorHandler(logging.StreamHandler):
+    LEVEL_COLORS = {
+        logging.DEBUG: '\033[00;32m',  # GREEN
+        logging.INFO: '\033[00;36m',  # CYAN
+        logging.AUDIT: '\033[01;36m',  # BOLD CYAN
+        logging.WARN: '\033[01;33m',  # BOLD YELLOW
+        logging.ERROR: '\033[01;31m',  # BOLD RED
+        logging.CRITICAL: '\033[01;31m',  # BOLD RED
+    }
+
+    def format(self, record):
+        record.color = self.LEVEL_COLORS[record.levelno]
+        return logging.StreamHandler.format(self, record)
+
+
+class DeprecatedConfig(Exception):
+    message = _("Fatal call to deprecated config: %(msg)s")
+
+    def __init__(self, msg):
+        super(Exception, self).__init__(self.message % dict(msg=msg))
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/processutils.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/processutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..adfb91d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/os_net_config/openstack/common/processutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,272 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack Foundation.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""
+System-level utilities and helper functions.
+"""
+
+import errno
+import logging as stdlib_logging
+import os
+import random
+import shlex
+import signal
+
+from eventlet.green import subprocess
+from eventlet import greenthread
+import six
+
+from os_net_config.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from os_net_config.openstack.common import log as logging
+
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class InvalidArgumentError(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, message=None):
+        super(InvalidArgumentError, self).__init__(message)
+
+
+class UnknownArgumentError(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, message=None):
+        super(UnknownArgumentError, self).__init__(message)
+
+
+class ProcessExecutionError(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, stdout=None, stderr=None, exit_code=None, cmd=None,
+                 description=None):
+        self.exit_code = exit_code
+        self.stderr = stderr
+        self.stdout = stdout
+        self.cmd = cmd
+        self.description = description
+
+        if description is None:
+            description = _("Unexpected error while running command.")
+        if exit_code is None:
+            exit_code = '-'
+        message = _('%(description)s\n'
+                    'Command: %(cmd)s\n'
+                    'Exit code: %(exit_code)s\n'
+                    'Stdout: %(stdout)r\n'
+                    'Stderr: %(stderr)r') % {'description': description,
+                                             'cmd': cmd,
+                                             'exit_code': exit_code,
+                                             'stdout': stdout,
+                                             'stderr': stderr}
+        super(ProcessExecutionError, self).__init__(message)
+
+
+class NoRootWrapSpecified(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, message=None):
+        super(NoRootWrapSpecified, self).__init__(message)
+
+
+def _subprocess_setup():
+    # Python installs a SIGPIPE handler by default. This is usually not what
+    # non-Python subprocesses expect.
+    signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
+
+
+def execute(*cmd, **kwargs):
+    """Helper method to shell out and execute a command through subprocess.
+
+    Allows optional retry.
+
+    :param cmd:             Passed to subprocess.Popen.
+    :type cmd:              string
+    :param process_input:   Send to opened process.
+    :type process_input:    string
+    :param env_variables:   Environment variables and their values that
+                            will be set for the process.
+    :type env_variables:    dict
+    :param check_exit_code: Single bool, int, or list of allowed exit
+                            codes.  Defaults to [0].  Raise
+                            :class:`ProcessExecutionError` unless
+                            program exits with one of these code.
+    :type check_exit_code:  boolean, int, or [int]
+    :param delay_on_retry:  True | False. Defaults to True. If set to True,
+                            wait a short amount of time before retrying.
+    :type delay_on_retry:   boolean
+    :param attempts:        How many times to retry cmd.
+    :type attempts:         int
+    :param run_as_root:     True | False. Defaults to False. If set to True,
+                            the command is prefixed by the command specified
+                            in the root_helper kwarg.
+    :type run_as_root:      boolean
+    :param root_helper:     command to prefix to commands called with
+                            run_as_root=True
+    :type root_helper:      string
+    :param shell:           whether or not there should be a shell used to
+                            execute this command. Defaults to false.
+    :type shell:            boolean
+    :param loglevel:        log level for execute commands.
+    :type loglevel:         int.  (Should be stdlib_logging.DEBUG or
+                            stdlib_logging.INFO)
+    :returns:               (stdout, stderr) from process execution
+    :raises:                :class:`UnknownArgumentError` on
+                            receiving unknown arguments
+    :raises:                :class:`ProcessExecutionError`
+    """
+
+    process_input = kwargs.pop('process_input', None)
+    env_variables = kwargs.pop('env_variables', None)
+    check_exit_code = kwargs.pop('check_exit_code', [0])
+    ignore_exit_code = False
+    delay_on_retry = kwargs.pop('delay_on_retry', True)
+    attempts = kwargs.pop('attempts', 1)
+    run_as_root = kwargs.pop('run_as_root', False)
+    root_helper = kwargs.pop('root_helper', '')
+    shell = kwargs.pop('shell', False)
+    loglevel = kwargs.pop('loglevel', stdlib_logging.DEBUG)
+
+    if isinstance(check_exit_code, bool):
+        ignore_exit_code = not check_exit_code
+        check_exit_code = [0]
+    elif isinstance(check_exit_code, int):
+        check_exit_code = [check_exit_code]
+
+    if kwargs:
+        raise UnknownArgumentError(_('Got unknown keyword args '
+                                     'to utils.execute: %r') % kwargs)
+
+    if run_as_root and hasattr(os, 'geteuid') and os.geteuid() != 0:
+        if not root_helper:
+            raise NoRootWrapSpecified(
+                message=_('Command requested root, but did not '
+                          'specify a root helper.'))
+        cmd = shlex.split(root_helper) + list(cmd)
+
+    cmd = map(str, cmd)
+
+    while attempts > 0:
+        attempts -= 1
+        try:
+            LOG.log(loglevel, 'Running cmd (subprocess): %s',
+                    ' '.join(logging.mask_password(cmd)))
+            _PIPE = subprocess.PIPE  # pylint: disable=E1101
+
+            if os.name == 'nt':
+                preexec_fn = None
+                close_fds = False
+            else:
+                preexec_fn = _subprocess_setup
+                close_fds = True
+
+            obj = subprocess.Popen(cmd,
+                                   stdin=_PIPE,
+                                   stdout=_PIPE,
+                                   stderr=_PIPE,
+                                   close_fds=close_fds,
+                                   preexec_fn=preexec_fn,
+                                   shell=shell,
+                                   env=env_variables)
+            result = None
+            for _i in six.moves.range(20):
+                # NOTE(russellb) 20 is an arbitrary number of retries to
+                # prevent any chance of looping forever here.
+                try:
+                    if process_input is not None:
+                        result = obj.communicate(process_input)
+                    else:
+                        result = obj.communicate()
+                except OSError as e:
+                    if e.errno in (errno.EAGAIN, errno.EINTR):
+                        continue
+                    raise
+                break
+            obj.stdin.close()  # pylint: disable=E1101
+            _returncode = obj.returncode  # pylint: disable=E1101
+            LOG.log(loglevel, 'Result was %s' % _returncode)
+            if not ignore_exit_code and _returncode not in check_exit_code:
+                (stdout, stderr) = result
+                raise ProcessExecutionError(exit_code=_returncode,
+                                            stdout=stdout,
+                                            stderr=stderr,
+                                            cmd=' '.join(cmd))
+            return result
+        except ProcessExecutionError:
+            if not attempts:
+                raise
+            else:
+                LOG.log(loglevel, '%r failed. Retrying.', cmd)
+                if delay_on_retry:
+                    greenthread.sleep(random.randint(20, 200) / 100.0)
+        finally:
+            # NOTE(termie): this appears to be necessary to let the subprocess
+            #               call clean something up in between calls, without
+            #               it two execute calls in a row hangs the second one
+            greenthread.sleep(0)
+
+
+def trycmd(*args, **kwargs):
+    """A wrapper around execute() to more easily handle warnings and errors.
+
+    Returns an (out, err) tuple of strings containing the output of
+    the command's stdout and stderr.  If 'err' is not empty then the
+    command can be considered to have failed.
+
+    :discard_warnings   True | False. Defaults to False. If set to True,
+                        then for succeeding commands, stderr is cleared
+
+    """
+    discard_warnings = kwargs.pop('discard_warnings', False)
+
+    try:
+        out, err = execute(*args, **kwargs)
+        failed = False
+    except ProcessExecutionError as exn:
+        out, err = '', six.text_type(exn)
+        failed = True
+
+    if not failed and discard_warnings and err:
+        # Handle commands that output to stderr but otherwise succeed
+        err = ''
+
+    return out, err
+
+
+def ssh_execute(ssh, cmd, process_input=None,
+                addl_env=None, check_exit_code=True):
+    LOG.debug('Running cmd (SSH): %s', cmd)
+    if addl_env:
+        raise InvalidArgumentError(_('Environment not supported over SSH'))
+
+    if process_input:
+        # This is (probably) fixable if we need it...
+        raise InvalidArgumentError(_('process_input not supported over SSH'))
+
+    stdin_stream, stdout_stream, stderr_stream = ssh.exec_command(cmd)
+    channel = stdout_stream.channel
+
+    # NOTE(justinsb): This seems suspicious...
+    # ...other SSH clients have buffering issues with this approach
+    stdout = stdout_stream.read()
+    stderr = stderr_stream.read()
+    stdin_stream.close()
+
+    exit_status = channel.recv_exit_status()
+
+    # exit_status == -1 if no exit code was returned
+    if exit_status != -1:
+        LOG.debug('Result was %s' % exit_status)
+        if check_exit_code and exit_status != 0:
+            raise ProcessExecutionError(exit_code=exit_status,
+                                        stdout=stdout,
+                                        stderr=stderr,
+                                        cmd=cmd)
+
+    return (stdout, stderr)
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/strutils.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/strutils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b315e99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/os_net_config/openstack/common/strutils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack Foundation.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""
+System-level utilities and helper functions.
+"""
+
+import math
+import re
+import sys
+import unicodedata
+
+import six
+
+from os_net_config.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+
+
+UNIT_PREFIX_EXPONENT = {
+    'k': 1,
+    'K': 1,
+    'Ki': 1,
+    'M': 2,
+    'Mi': 2,
+    'G': 3,
+    'Gi': 3,
+    'T': 4,
+    'Ti': 4,
+}
+UNIT_SYSTEM_INFO = {
+    'IEC': (1024, re.compile(r'(^[-+]?\d*\.?\d+)([KMGT]i?)?(b|bit|B)$')),
+    'SI': (1000, re.compile(r'(^[-+]?\d*\.?\d+)([kMGT])?(b|bit|B)$')),
+}
+
+TRUE_STRINGS = ('1', 't', 'true', 'on', 'y', 'yes')
+FALSE_STRINGS = ('0', 'f', 'false', 'off', 'n', 'no')
+
+SLUGIFY_STRIP_RE = re.compile(r"[^\w\s-]")
+SLUGIFY_HYPHENATE_RE = re.compile(r"[-\s]+")
+
+
+def int_from_bool_as_string(subject):
+    """Interpret a string as a boolean and return either 1 or 0.
+
+    Any string value in:
+
+        ('True', 'true', 'On', 'on', '1')
+
+    is interpreted as a boolean True.
+
+    Useful for JSON-decoded stuff and config file parsing
+    """
+    return bool_from_string(subject) and 1 or 0
+
+
+def bool_from_string(subject, strict=False, default=False):
+    """Interpret a string as a boolean.
+
+    A case-insensitive match is performed such that strings matching 't',
+    'true', 'on', 'y', 'yes', or '1' are considered True and, when
+    `strict=False`, anything else returns the value specified by 'default'.
+
+    Useful for JSON-decoded stuff and config file parsing.
+
+    If `strict=True`, unrecognized values, including None, will raise a
+    ValueError which is useful when parsing values passed in from an API call.
+    Strings yielding False are 'f', 'false', 'off', 'n', 'no', or '0'.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(subject, six.string_types):
+        subject = six.text_type(subject)
+
+    lowered = subject.strip().lower()
+
+    if lowered in TRUE_STRINGS:
+        return True
+    elif lowered in FALSE_STRINGS:
+        return False
+    elif strict:
+        acceptable = ', '.join(
+            "'%s'" % s for s in sorted(TRUE_STRINGS + FALSE_STRINGS))
+        msg = _("Unrecognized value '%(val)s', acceptable values are:"
+                " %(acceptable)s") % {'val': subject,
+                                      'acceptable': acceptable}
+        raise ValueError(msg)
+    else:
+        return default
+
+
+def safe_decode(text, incoming=None, errors='strict'):
+    """Decodes incoming text/bytes string using `incoming` if they're not
+       already unicode.
+
+    :param incoming: Text's current encoding
+    :param errors: Errors handling policy. See here for valid
+        values http://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html
+    :returns: text or a unicode `incoming` encoded
+                representation of it.
+    :raises TypeError: If text is not an instance of str
+    """
+    if not isinstance(text, (six.string_types, six.binary_type)):
+        raise TypeError("%s can't be decoded" % type(text))
+
+    if isinstance(text, six.text_type):
+        return text
+
+    if not incoming:
+        incoming = (sys.stdin.encoding or
+                    sys.getdefaultencoding())
+
+    try:
+        return text.decode(incoming, errors)
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        # Note(flaper87) If we get here, it means that
+        # sys.stdin.encoding / sys.getdefaultencoding
+        # didn't return a suitable encoding to decode
+        # text. This happens mostly when global LANG
+        # var is not set correctly and there's no
+        # default encoding. In this case, most likely
+        # python will use ASCII or ANSI encoders as
+        # default encodings but they won't be capable
+        # of decoding non-ASCII characters.
+        #
+        # Also, UTF-8 is being used since it's an ASCII
+        # extension.
+        return text.decode('utf-8', errors)
+
+
+def safe_encode(text, incoming=None,
+                encoding='utf-8', errors='strict'):
+    """Encodes incoming text/bytes string using `encoding`.
+
+    If incoming is not specified, text is expected to be encoded with
+    current python's default encoding. (`sys.getdefaultencoding`)
+
+    :param incoming: Text's current encoding
+    :param encoding: Expected encoding for text (Default UTF-8)
+    :param errors: Errors handling policy. See here for valid
+        values http://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html
+    :returns: text or a bytestring `encoding` encoded
+                representation of it.
+    :raises TypeError: If text is not an instance of str
+    """
+    if not isinstance(text, (six.string_types, six.binary_type)):
+        raise TypeError("%s can't be encoded" % type(text))
+
+    if not incoming:
+        incoming = (sys.stdin.encoding or
+                    sys.getdefaultencoding())
+
+    if isinstance(text, six.text_type):
+        return text.encode(encoding, errors)
+    elif text and encoding != incoming:
+        # Decode text before encoding it with `encoding`
+        text = safe_decode(text, incoming, errors)
+        return text.encode(encoding, errors)
+    else:
+        return text
+
+
+def string_to_bytes(text, unit_system='IEC', return_int=False):
+    """Converts a string into an float representation of bytes.
+
+    The units supported for IEC ::
+
+        Kb(it), Kib(it), Mb(it), Mib(it), Gb(it), Gib(it), Tb(it), Tib(it)
+        KB, KiB, MB, MiB, GB, GiB, TB, TiB
+
+    The units supported for SI ::
+
+        kb(it), Mb(it), Gb(it), Tb(it)
+        kB, MB, GB, TB
+
+    Note that the SI unit system does not support capital letter 'K'
+
+    :param text: String input for bytes size conversion.
+    :param unit_system: Unit system for byte size conversion.
+    :param return_int: If True, returns integer representation of text
+                       in bytes. (default: decimal)
+    :returns: Numerical representation of text in bytes.
+    :raises ValueError: If text has an invalid value.
+
+    """
+    try:
+        base, reg_ex = UNIT_SYSTEM_INFO[unit_system]
+    except KeyError:
+        msg = _('Invalid unit system: "%s"') % unit_system
+        raise ValueError(msg)
+    match = reg_ex.match(text)
+    if match:
+        magnitude = float(match.group(1))
+        unit_prefix = match.group(2)
+        if match.group(3) in ['b', 'bit']:
+            magnitude /= 8
+    else:
+        msg = _('Invalid string format: %s') % text
+        raise ValueError(msg)
+    if not unit_prefix:
+        res = magnitude
+    else:
+        res = magnitude * pow(base, UNIT_PREFIX_EXPONENT[unit_prefix])
+    if return_int:
+        return int(math.ceil(res))
+    return res
+
+
+def to_slug(value, incoming=None, errors="strict"):
+    """Normalize string.
+
+    Convert to lowercase, remove non-word characters, and convert spaces
+    to hyphens.
+
+    Inspired by Django's `slugify` filter.
+
+    :param value: Text to slugify
+    :param incoming: Text's current encoding
+    :param errors: Errors handling policy. See here for valid
+        values http://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html
+    :returns: slugified unicode representation of `value`
+    :raises TypeError: If text is not an instance of str
+    """
+    value = safe_decode(value, incoming, errors)
+    # NOTE(aababilov): no need to use safe_(encode|decode) here:
+    # encodings are always "ascii", error handling is always "ignore"
+    # and types are always known (first: unicode; second: str)
+    value = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", value).encode(
+        "ascii", "ignore").decode("ascii")
+    value = SLUGIFY_STRIP_RE.sub("", value).strip().lower()
+    return SLUGIFY_HYPHENATE_RE.sub("-", value)
diff --git a/os_net_config/openstack/common/timeutils.py b/os_net_config/openstack/common/timeutils.py
new file mode 100644
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+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack Foundation.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+"""
+Time related utilities and helper functions.
+"""
+
+import calendar
+import datetime
+import time
+
+import iso8601
+import six
+
+
+# ISO 8601 extended time format with microseconds
+_ISO8601_TIME_FORMAT_SUBSECOND = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f'
+_ISO8601_TIME_FORMAT = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'
+PERFECT_TIME_FORMAT = _ISO8601_TIME_FORMAT_SUBSECOND
+
+
+def isotime(at=None, subsecond=False):
+    """Stringify time in ISO 8601 format."""
+    if not at:
+        at = utcnow()
+    st = at.strftime(_ISO8601_TIME_FORMAT
+                     if not subsecond
+                     else _ISO8601_TIME_FORMAT_SUBSECOND)
+    tz = at.tzinfo.tzname(None) if at.tzinfo else 'UTC'
+    st += ('Z' if tz == 'UTC' else tz)
+    return st
+
+
+def parse_isotime(timestr):
+    """Parse time from ISO 8601 format."""
+    try:
+        return iso8601.parse_date(timestr)
+    except iso8601.ParseError as e:
+        raise ValueError(six.text_type(e))
+    except TypeError as e:
+        raise ValueError(six.text_type(e))
+
+
+def strtime(at=None, fmt=PERFECT_TIME_FORMAT):
+    """Returns formatted utcnow."""
+    if not at:
+        at = utcnow()
+    return at.strftime(fmt)
+
+
+def parse_strtime(timestr, fmt=PERFECT_TIME_FORMAT):
+    """Turn a formatted time back into a datetime."""
+    return datetime.datetime.strptime(timestr, fmt)
+
+
+def normalize_time(timestamp):
+    """Normalize time in arbitrary timezone to UTC naive object."""
+    offset = timestamp.utcoffset()
+    if offset is None:
+        return timestamp
+    return timestamp.replace(tzinfo=None) - offset
+
+
+def is_older_than(before, seconds):
+    """Return True if before is older than seconds."""
+    if isinstance(before, six.string_types):
+        before = parse_strtime(before).replace(tzinfo=None)
+    else:
+        before = before.replace(tzinfo=None)
+
+    return utcnow() - before > datetime.timedelta(seconds=seconds)
+
+
+def is_newer_than(after, seconds):
+    """Return True if after is newer than seconds."""
+    if isinstance(after, six.string_types):
+        after = parse_strtime(after).replace(tzinfo=None)
+    else:
+        after = after.replace(tzinfo=None)
+
+    return after - utcnow() > datetime.timedelta(seconds=seconds)
+
+
+def utcnow_ts():
+    """Timestamp version of our utcnow function."""
+    if utcnow.override_time is None:
+        # NOTE(kgriffs): This is several times faster
+        # than going through calendar.timegm(...)
+        return int(time.time())
+
+    return calendar.timegm(utcnow().timetuple())
+
+
+def utcnow():
+    """Overridable version of utils.utcnow."""
+    if utcnow.override_time:
+        try:
+            return utcnow.override_time.pop(0)
+        except AttributeError:
+            return utcnow.override_time
+    return datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+
+
+def iso8601_from_timestamp(timestamp):
+    """Returns a iso8601 formatted date from timestamp."""
+    return isotime(datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp))
+
+
+utcnow.override_time = None
+
+
+def set_time_override(override_time=None):
+    """Overrides utils.utcnow.
+
+    Make it return a constant time or a list thereof, one at a time.
+
+    :param override_time: datetime instance or list thereof. If not
+                          given, defaults to the current UTC time.
+    """
+    utcnow.override_time = override_time or datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+
+
+def advance_time_delta(timedelta):
+    """Advance overridden time using a datetime.timedelta."""
+    assert(not utcnow.override_time is None)
+    try:
+        for dt in utcnow.override_time:
+            dt += timedelta
+    except TypeError:
+        utcnow.override_time += timedelta
+
+
+def advance_time_seconds(seconds):
+    """Advance overridden time by seconds."""
+    advance_time_delta(datetime.timedelta(0, seconds))
+
+
+def clear_time_override():
+    """Remove the overridden time."""
+    utcnow.override_time = None
+
+
+def marshall_now(now=None):
+    """Make an rpc-safe datetime with microseconds.
+
+    Note: tzinfo is stripped, but not required for relative times.
+    """
+    if not now:
+        now = utcnow()
+    return dict(day=now.day, month=now.month, year=now.year, hour=now.hour,
+                minute=now.minute, second=now.second,
+                microsecond=now.microsecond)
+
+
+def unmarshall_time(tyme):
+    """Unmarshall a datetime dict."""
+    return datetime.datetime(day=tyme['day'],
+                             month=tyme['month'],
+                             year=tyme['year'],
+                             hour=tyme['hour'],
+                             minute=tyme['minute'],
+                             second=tyme['second'],
+                             microsecond=tyme['microsecond'])
+
+
+def delta_seconds(before, after):
+    """Return the difference between two timing objects.
+
+    Compute the difference in seconds between two date, time, or
+    datetime objects (as a float, to microsecond resolution).
+    """
+    delta = after - before
+    return total_seconds(delta)
+
+
+def total_seconds(delta):
+    """Return the total seconds of datetime.timedelta object.
+
+    Compute total seconds of datetime.timedelta, datetime.timedelta
+    doesn't have method total_seconds in Python2.6, calculate it manually.
+    """
+    try:
+        return delta.total_seconds()
+    except AttributeError:
+        return ((delta.days * 24 * 3600) + delta.seconds +
+                float(delta.microseconds) / (10 ** 6))
+
+
+def is_soon(dt, window):
+    """Determines if time is going to happen in the next window seconds.
+
+    :param dt: the time
+    :param window: minimum seconds to remain to consider the time not soon
+
+    :return: True if expiration is within the given duration
+    """
+    soon = (utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=window))
+    return normalize_time(dt) <= soon