compress_json.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

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import json
import struct
import sys
import zlib

if __name__ == '__main__':
  fp = open(sys.argv[1])
  obj = json.load(fp)
  text = json.dumps(obj, separators=(',', ':'))
  data = zlib.compress(text, zlib.Z_BEST_COMPRESSION)

  # To make decompression a little easier, we prepend the compressed data
  # with the size of the uncompressed data as a 24 bits BE unsigned integer.
  assert len(text) < 1 << 24, 'Uncompressed JSON must be < 16 MB.'
  data = struct.pack('>I', len(text))[1:4] + data

  step = 20
  slices = (data[i:i+step] for i in xrange(0, len(data), step))
  slices = map(lambda s: ','.join(str(ord(c)) for c in s), slices)
  text = ',\n'.join(slices)

  fp = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')
  fp.write(text)