def _ensure_network(self, result):
        # BIG-IP's value for "default" is that the key does not
        # exist. This conflicts with our purpose of having a key
        # not exist (which we equate to "i dont want to change that"
        # therefore, if we load the information from BIG-IP and
        # find that there is no 'network' key, that is BIG-IP's
        # way of saying that the network value is "default"
        if 'network' not in result:
            result['network'] = 'default'