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+# Copyright 2020 Canonical Ltd.
+#
+# 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 base64
+import re
+import binascii
+import yaml
+import string
+import secrets
+from enum import Enum
+from juju.machine import Machine
+from juju.application import Application
+from juju.action import Action
+from juju.unit import Unit
+from osm_lcm.n2vc.exceptions import N2VCInvalidCertificate
+from typing import Tuple
+
+
+def base64_to_cacert(b64string):
+    """Convert the base64-encoded string containing the VCA CACERT.
+
+    The input string....
+
+    """
+    try:
+        cacert = base64.b64decode(b64string).decode("utf-8")
+
+        cacert = re.sub(
+            r"\\n",
+            r"\n",
+            cacert,
+        )
+    except binascii.Error as e:
+        raise N2VCInvalidCertificate(message="Invalid CA Certificate: {}".format(e))
+
+    return cacert
+
+
+class N2VCDeploymentStatus(Enum):
+    PENDING = "pending"
+    RUNNING = "running"
+    COMPLETED = "completed"
+    FAILED = "failed"
+    UNKNOWN = "unknown"
+
+
+class Dict(dict):
+    """
+    Dict class that allows to access the keys like attributes
+    """
+
+    def __getattribute__(self, name):
+        if name in self:
+            return self[name]
+
+
+class EntityType(Enum):
+    MACHINE = Machine
+    APPLICATION = Application
+    ACTION = Action
+    UNIT = Unit
+
+    @classmethod
+    def has_value(cls, value):
+        return value in cls._value2member_map_  # pylint: disable=E1101
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_entity(cls, value):
+        return (
+            cls._value2member_map_[value]  # pylint: disable=E1101
+            if value in cls._value2member_map_  # pylint: disable=E1101
+            else None  # pylint: disable=E1101
+        )
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_entity_from_delta(cls, delta_entity: str):
+        """
+        Get Value from delta entity
+
+        :param: delta_entity: Possible values are "machine", "application", "unit", "action"
+        """
+        for v in cls._value2member_map_:  # pylint: disable=E1101
+            if v.__name__.lower() == delta_entity:
+                return cls.get_entity(v)
+
+
+JujuStatusToOSM = {
+    "machine": {
+        "pending": N2VCDeploymentStatus.PENDING,
+        "started": N2VCDeploymentStatus.COMPLETED,
+    },
+    "application": {
+        "waiting": N2VCDeploymentStatus.RUNNING,
+        "maintenance": N2VCDeploymentStatus.RUNNING,
+        "blocked": N2VCDeploymentStatus.RUNNING,
+        "error": N2VCDeploymentStatus.FAILED,
+        "active": N2VCDeploymentStatus.COMPLETED,
+    },
+    "action": {
+        "pending": N2VCDeploymentStatus.PENDING,
+        "running": N2VCDeploymentStatus.RUNNING,
+        "completed": N2VCDeploymentStatus.COMPLETED,
+    },
+    "unit": {
+        "waiting": N2VCDeploymentStatus.RUNNING,
+        "maintenance": N2VCDeploymentStatus.RUNNING,
+        "blocked": N2VCDeploymentStatus.RUNNING,
+        "error": N2VCDeploymentStatus.FAILED,
+        "active": N2VCDeploymentStatus.COMPLETED,
+    },
+}
+
+
+def obj_to_yaml(obj: object) -> str:
+    """
+    Converts object to yaml format
+    :return: yaml data
+    """
+    # dump to yaml
+    dump_text = yaml.dump(obj, default_flow_style=False, indent=2)
+    # split lines
+    lines = dump_text.splitlines()
+    # remove !!python/object tags
+    yaml_text = ""
+    for line in lines:
+        index = line.find("!!python/object")
+        if index >= 0:
+            line = line[:index]
+        yaml_text += line + "\n"
+    return yaml_text
+
+
+def obj_to_dict(obj: object) -> dict:
+    """
+    Converts object to dictionary format
+    :return: dict data
+    """
+    # convert obj to yaml
+    yaml_text = obj_to_yaml(obj)
+    # parse to dict
+    return yaml.load(yaml_text, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader)
+
+
+def get_ee_id_components(ee_id: str) -> Tuple[str, str, str]:
+    """
+    Get model, application and machine components from an execution environment id
+    :param ee_id:
+    :return: model_name, application_name, machine_id
+    """
+    parts = ee_id.split(".")
+    if len(parts) != 3:
+        raise Exception("invalid ee id.")
+    model_name = parts[0]
+    application_name = parts[1]
+    machine_id = parts[2]
+    return model_name, application_name, machine_id
+
+
+def generate_random_alfanum_string(size: int) -> str:
+    """
+    Generate random alfa-numeric string with a size given by argument
+    :param size:
+    :return: random generated string
+    """
+
+    return "".join(
+        secrets.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for i in range(size)
+    )