code: def get_fw_dict(self):
          
          fw_dict = {}
          if self.fw_id is None:
              return fw_dict
          fw_dict = {'rules': {}, 'tenant_name': self.tenant_name,
                     'tenant_id': self.tenant_id, 'fw_id': self.fw_id,
                     'fw_name': self.fw_name,
                     'firewall_policy_id': self.active_pol_id,
                     'fw_type': self.fw_type, 'router_id': self.router_id}
          # When Firewall and Policy are both deleted and the SM is doing a
          # retry (maybe DCNM Out partition could not be deleted) during
          # which without this check, it throws an exception since
          # self.policies is empty. This is also an issue during restart.
          if self.active_pol_id not in self.policies:
              return fw_dict
          pol_dict = self.policies[self.active_pol_id]
          for rule in pol_dict['rule_dict']:
              fw_dict['rules'][rule] = self.rules[rule]
          return fw_dict
docs: This API creates a FW dictionary from the local attributes.