diff --git a/cinderclient/openstack/common/apiclient/base.py b/cinderclient/openstack/common/apiclient/base.py
index bc4a1588b..82670aa56 100644
--- a/cinderclient/openstack/common/apiclient/base.py
+++ b/cinderclient/openstack/common/apiclient/base.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Base utilities to build API operation managers and objects on top of.
 # pylint: disable=E1102
 
 import abc
+import copy
 
 import six
 from six.moves.urllib import parse
@@ -489,3 +490,6 @@ class Resource(object):
 
     def set_loaded(self, val):
         self._loaded = val
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        return copy.deepcopy(self._info)
diff --git a/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py b/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py
index e4eba0dcd..105d9b7c0 100644
--- a/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py
+++ b/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py
@@ -59,3 +59,7 @@ class BaseTest(utils.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(exceptions.NotFound,
                           cs.volumes.find,
                           vegetable='carrot')
+
+    def test_to_dict(self):
+        r1 = base.Resource(None, {'id': 1, 'name': 'hi'})
+        self.assertEqual({'id': 1, 'name': 'hi'}, r1.to_dict())