'Return a Backend Service object based on name
:param  name: The name of the backend service
:type   name: ``str``
:return:  A BackendService object for the backend service
:rtype:   :class:`GCEBackendService`'

def ex_get_backendservice(self, name):

    request = ('/global/backendServices/%s' % name)
    response = self.connection.request(request, method='GET').object
    return self._to_backendservice(response)
