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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def loadFeatures(self, path_to_fc):
 """ loads a feature class features to the object """

        from ..common.spatial import featureclass_to_json
        v = json.loads(featureclass_to_json(path_to_fc))
        self.value = v