Convinient method for GET requests
        Returns http request status value from a POST request

def _do_get(self, uri, **kwargs):
        """
        Convinient method for GET requests
        Returns http request status value from a POST request
        """
        #TODO:
        # Add error handling. Check for HTTP status here would be much more conveinent than in each calling method
        scaleioapi_get_headers = {'Content-type':'application/json','Version':'1.0'}
        self.logger.debug("_do_get() " + "{}/{}".format(self._api_url,uri))
        
        if kwargs:
            for key, value in kwargs.iteritems():
                if key == 'headers':
                    scaleio_get_headersvalue = value

        try:
            #response = self._im_session.get("{}/{}".format(self._api_url, uri), headers = scaleioapi_get_headers, payload = scaleio_payload).json()
            response = self._im_session.get("{}/{}".format(self._api_url, uri), **kwargs).json()
            #response = self._session.get(url, headers=scaleioapi_post_headers, **kwargs)
            if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
                return response
            else:
                raise RuntimeError("_do_get() - HTTP response error" + response.status_code)
        except:
            raise RuntimeError("_do_get() - Communication error with ScaleIO gateway")
        return response