'Return a list of backend services.
:return: A list of backend service objects.
:rtype: ``list`` of :class:`GCEBackendService`'

def ex_list_backendservices(self):

    list_backendservices = []
    response = self.connection.request('/global/backendServices', method='GET').object
    list_backendservices = [self._to_backendservice(d) for d in response.get('items', [])]
    return list_backendservices
