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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright (c) 2017 Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd and others.
+#
+# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+# are made available under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+"""
+Utils for functest restapi
+
+"""
+
+import collections
+import logging
+import os
+import sys
+from oslo_utils import importutils
+
+import six
+
+import functest
+
+LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def change_to_str_in_dict(obj):
+    """
+    Return a dict with key and value both in string if they are in Unicode
+    """
+    if isinstance(obj, collections.Mapping):
+        return {str(k): change_to_str_in_dict(v) for k, v in obj.items()}
+    elif isinstance(obj, list):
+        return [change_to_str_in_dict(ele) for ele in obj]
+    elif isinstance(obj, six.text_type):
+        return str(obj)
+    return obj
+
+
+def itersubclasses(cls, _seen=None):
+    """ Generator over all subclasses of a given class in depth first order """
+
+    if not isinstance(cls, type):
+        raise TypeError("itersubclasses must be called with "
+                        "new-style classes, not %.100r" % cls)
+    _seen = _seen or set()
+    try:
+        subs = cls.__subclasses__()
+    except TypeError:   # fails only when cls is type
+        subs = cls.__subclasses__(cls)
+    for sub in subs:
+        if sub not in _seen:
+            _seen.add(sub)
+            yield sub
+            for itersub in itersubclasses(sub, _seen):
+                yield itersub
+
+
+def import_modules_from_package(package):
+    """
+    Import modules from package and append into sys.modules
+    :param: package - Full package name. For example: functest.api.resources
+    """
+    path = [os.path.dirname(functest.__file__), ".."] + package.split(".")
+    path = os.path.join(*path)
+    for root, _, files in os.walk(path):
+        for filename in files:
+            if filename.startswith("__") or not filename.endswith(".py"):
+                continue
+            new_package = ".".join(root.split(os.sep)).split("....")[1]
+            module_name = "%s.%s" % (new_package, filename[:-3])
+            try:
+                try_append_module(module_name, sys.modules)
+            except ImportError:
+                LOGGER.exception("unable to import %s", module_name)
+
+
+def try_append_module(name, modules):
+    """ Append the module into specified module system """
+
+    if name not in modules:
+        modules[name] = importutils.import_module(name)
+
+
+def change_obj_to_dict(obj):
+    """  Transfer the object into dict """
+    dic = {}
+    for key, value in vars(obj).items():
+        dic.update({key: value})
+    return dic