Ground work for hpa validation

Added the declarative schema for hpa validation. This is the ground
layering work for hpa validation.

Change-Id: I2ff30489e191ecf187711e1025f6e3faee9946c3
Issue-ID: VNFSDK-194
Signed-off-by: Lianhao Lu <lianhao.lu@intel.com>
diff --git a/vnfsdk_pkgtools/validator/utils.py b/vnfsdk_pkgtools/validator/utils.py
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Intel Corp Inc. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+import logging
+import os
+
+from ruamel import yaml
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def load_definitions(config_file, defaults=None):
+    if not os.path.exists(config_file):
+        LOG.info("No definitions configuration file %s found! "
+                 "Using default config.", config_file)
+        definition_cfg = defaults
+    else:
+        LOG.debug("Loading definitions configuration file: %s", config_file)
+        with open(config_file) as cf:
+            config = cf.read()
+        try:
+            definition_cfg = yaml.safe_load(config)
+        except yaml.YAMLError as err:
+            if hasattr(err, 'problem_mark'):
+                mark = err.problem_mark
+                errmsg = ("Invalid YAML syntax in Definitions file %(file)s "
+                           "at line: %(line)s, column: %(column)s." %
+                           dict(file=config_file,
+                                line=mark.line + 1,
+                                column=mark.column + 1))
+            else:
+                errmsg = ("YAML error reading Definitions file %s" % config_file)
+            LOG.error(errmsg)
+            raise
+
+    LOG.debug("Definitions: %s", definition_cfg)
+    return definition_cfg