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+#!/Users/pldms/Development/Projects/2020/david-matthews-galaxy/guppy_basecaller/env/bin/python3
+
+import argparse
+import os
+
+import boto
+from boto.compat import json
+from boto.compat import six
+from boto.dynamodb.schema import Schema
+
+
+DESCRIPTION = """Load data into one or more DynamoDB tables.
+
+For each table, data is read from two files:
+  - {table_name}.metadata for the table's name, schema and provisioned
+    throughput (only required if creating the table).
+  - {table_name}.data for the table's actual contents.
+
+Both files are searched for in the current directory. To read them from
+somewhere else, use the --in-dir parameter.
+
+This program does not wipe the tables prior to loading data. However, any
+items present in the data files will overwrite the table's contents.
+"""
+
+
+def _json_iterload(fd):
+    """Lazily load newline-separated JSON objects from a file-like object."""
+    buffer = ""
+    eof = False
+    while not eof:
+        try:
+            # Add a line to the buffer
+            buffer += fd.next()
+        except StopIteration:
+            # We can't let that exception bubble up, otherwise the last
+            # object in the file will never be decoded.
+            eof = True
+        try:
+            # Try to decode a JSON object.
+            json_object = json.loads(buffer.strip())
+
+            # Success: clear the buffer (everything was decoded).
+            buffer = ""
+        except ValueError:
+            if eof and buffer.strip():
+                # No more lines to load and the buffer contains something other
+                # than whitespace: the file is, in fact, malformed.
+                raise
+            # We couldn't decode a complete JSON object: load more lines.
+            continue
+
+        yield json_object
+
+
+def create_table(metadata_fd):
+    """Create a table from a metadata file-like object."""
+
+
+def load_table(table, in_fd):
+    """Load items into a table from a file-like object."""
+    for i in _json_iterload(in_fd):
+        # Convert lists back to sets.
+        data = {}
+        for k, v in six.iteritems(i):
+            if isinstance(v, list):
+                data[k] = set(v)
+            else:
+                data[k] = v
+        table.new_item(attrs=data).put()
+
+
+def dynamodb_load(tables, in_dir, create_tables):
+    conn = boto.connect_dynamodb()
+    for t in tables:
+        metadata_file = os.path.join(in_dir, "%s.metadata" % t)
+        data_file = os.path.join(in_dir, "%s.data" % t)
+        if create_tables:
+            with open(metadata_file) as meta_fd:
+                metadata = json.load(meta_fd)
+            table = conn.create_table(
+                name=t,
+                schema=Schema(metadata["schema"]),
+                read_units=metadata["read_units"],
+                write_units=metadata["write_units"],
+            )
+            table.refresh(wait_for_active=True)
+        else:
+            table = conn.get_table(t)
+
+        with open(data_file) as in_fd:
+            load_table(table, in_fd)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="dynamodb_load",
+        description=DESCRIPTION
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--create-tables",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Create the tables if they don't exist already (without this flag, attempts to load data into non-existing tables fail)."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--in-dir", default=".")
+    parser.add_argument("tables", metavar="TABLES", nargs="+")
+
+    namespace = parser.parse_args()
+
+    dynamodb_load(namespace.tables, namespace.in_dir, namespace.create_tables)