snappy_profiles.py

"""
You'll need to isntall the C++ library libsnappy-dev and the Python bindings
for it to be able to use snappy compression

To install:

   Linux: sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev
   OSX: brew isntall libsnappy-dev
   Windows: You're boned

Next you'll need the Python library for snappy:

  $ python3 -m venv snappy
  $ ./snappy/bin/pip install python-snappy

The  you can run this script with:

  $ ./snappy/bin/python snappy_profiles.py
"""
import os
from pathlib import Path

import snappy

IN_FILE_NAME = "./profiles.json"
OUT_FILE_NAME = "./profiles.snappy"
ONE_MILLION = 10000000
PROFILE = '{"name": "john doe","email": "john@email.com", "picture": "http://example.com/static/image.jpg"}'


def create_file():
    profiles = Path(IN_FILE_NAME)
    # Don't recreate the file if it's already there
    if not profiles.is_file():
        with open(IN_FILE_NAME, "w") as file:
            for _ in range(ONE_MILLION):
                file.write(PROFILE)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # I don't have a JSON file with a million profiles in it
    # laying around so I'm making one
    # you can remove this if you don't need it
    # Just change the value of IN_FILE_NAME to match yours
    create_file()

    # Uncompressed file size
    uncompressed = os.path.getsize(IN_FILE_NAME)

    # Open our JSON file
    with open(IN_FILE_NAME) as file:
        # Save the contents of the fileas a string
        string_data = "".join(file.readlines())

        # Compress the data in to a binary string
        # You can print this string if you want but
        # it will be a bunch of unintelligible garbage
        binary_data = snappy.compress(string_data)

    # Open a file to write to. Open it with "wb" for
    # "write, binary" since weahve binary data
    with open(OUT_FILE_NAME, "wb") as out:
        out.write(binary_data)

    compressed = os.path.getsize(OUT_FILE_NAME)

    print(f"Uncompressed file size: {str(uncompressed)} bytes ({str(uncompressed >> 20)}MB)")
    print(f"Compressed file size: {str(compressed)} bytes ({str(compressed >> 20)}MB)")