diff --git a/heat/engine/api.py b/heat/engine/api.py
index def6d8956..308186078 100644
--- a/heat/engine/api.py
+++ b/heat/engine/api.py
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
 #    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 #    under the License.
 
-import collections
-
 from oslo_log import log as logging
 from oslo_utils import timeutils
 import six
@@ -147,31 +145,32 @@ def format_stack(stack, preview=False):
 
 
 def format_resource_attributes(resource, with_attr=None):
+    """Format resource attributes in user-friendly way for resource-show.
+
+    Fetch all resource attributes and return it to caller. If with_attr is
+    not empty request these attributes additionally and try to resolve them.
+    If some attribute cannot be resolved then return None as attribute value.
+
+    :param resource: resource for which we shows the attributes
+    :param with_attr: additional attributes that we need to show in output.
+                      This attributes is useful only if a resource have a
+                      dynamic attribute scheme (f.e. resource with nested stack
+                      or software deployment) because we can fetch these
+                      attributes using with_attr only
+    :type with_attr: list
+    :returns attributes and attribute values
+    :rtype dict
+    """
+    def resolve(attr, attr_resolver):
+        try:
+            return attr_resolver[attr]
+        except Exception:
+            return None
+
     resolver = resource.attributes
     if not with_attr:
         with_attr = []
 
-    def resolve(attr, resolver):
-        try:
-            return resolver._resolver(attr)
-        except Exception:
-            return None
-    # if 'show' in attribute_schema, will resolve all attributes of resource
-    # including the ones are not represented in response of show API, such as
-    # 'console_urls' for nova server, user can view it by taking with_attr
-    # parameter
-    if 'show' in six.iterkeys(resolver):
-        show_attr = resolve('show', resolver)
-        # check if 'show' resolved to dictionary. so it's not None
-        if isinstance(show_attr, collections.Mapping):
-            for a in with_attr:
-                if a not in show_attr:
-                    show_attr[a] = resolve(a, resolver)
-            return show_attr
-        else:
-            # remove 'show' attribute if it's None or not a mapping
-            # then resolve all attributes manually
-            del resolver._attributes['show']
     attributes = set(list(six.iterkeys(resolver)) + with_attr)
     return dict((attr, resolve(attr, resolver))
                 for attr in attributes)
diff --git a/heat/tests/test_engine_api_utils.py b/heat/tests/test_engine_api_utils.py
index bcb9ef711..a3be30783 100644
--- a/heat/tests/test_engine_api_utils.py
+++ b/heat/tests/test_engine_api_utils.py
@@ -113,17 +113,17 @@ class FormatTest(common.HeatTestCase):
         # the _resolve_attribute method of  'generic1' returns map with all
         # attributes except 'show' (because it's None in this test)
         formatted_attributes = api.format_resource_attributes(res)
-        expected = {'foo': 'generic1', 'Foo': 'generic1'}
+        expected = {'foo': 'generic1', 'Foo': 'generic1', 'show': None}
         self.assertEqual(expected, formatted_attributes)
 
     def test_format_resource_attributes_show_attribute(self):
         res = self.stack['generic3']
         res.resource_id = 'generic3_id'
         formatted_attributes = api.format_resource_attributes(res)
-        self.assertEqual(3, len(formatted_attributes))
-        self.assertIn('foo', formatted_attributes)
-        self.assertIn('Foo', formatted_attributes)
-        self.assertIn('Another', formatted_attributes)
+        self.assertEqual(3, len(formatted_attributes['show']))
+        self.assertIn('foo', formatted_attributes['show'])
+        self.assertIn('Foo', formatted_attributes['show'])
+        self.assertIn('Another', formatted_attributes['show'])
 
     def test_format_resource_attributes_show_attribute_with_attr(self):
         res = self.stack['generic3']
@@ -131,9 +131,10 @@ class FormatTest(common.HeatTestCase):
         formatted_attributes = api.format_resource_attributes(
             res, with_attr=['c'])
         self.assertEqual(4, len(formatted_attributes))
-        self.assertIn('foo', formatted_attributes)
-        self.assertIn('Foo', formatted_attributes)
-        self.assertIn('Another', formatted_attributes)
+        self.assertEqual(3, len(formatted_attributes['show']))
+        self.assertIn('foo', formatted_attributes['show'])
+        self.assertIn('Foo', formatted_attributes['show'])
+        self.assertIn('Another', formatted_attributes['show'])
         self.assertIn('c', formatted_attributes)
 
     def _get_formatted_resource_properties(self, res_name):