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+# Copyright 2020 MONAI Consortium
+# 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 torch
+from ignite.handlers import Checkpoint
+from ignite.engine import Events
+import monai
+
+
+@monai.utils.export("monai.application.handlers")
+@monai.utils.alias("CheckpointLoader")
+class CheckpointLoader:
+    """CheckpointLoader acts as an ignite handler to load checkpoint data from file.
+    It can load variables for network, optimizer, lr_scheduler.
+    And also can restore training if load the state_dict of ignite engine.
+
+    Args:
+        load_path (string): the file path of checkpint, it shoule be a PyTorch pth file.
+        load_dict (dict): target objects that load checkpoint to. examples:
+                          {'network': net, 'optimizer': optimizer, 'engine', engine}
+
+    """
+    def __init__(self, load_path, load_dict):
+        assert load_path is not None, 'must provide clear path to load checkpoint.'
+        self.load_path = load_path
+        assert load_dict is not None and len(load_dict) > 0, 'must provide target objects to load.'
+        self.load_dict = load_dict
+
+    def attach(self, engine):
+        return engine.add_event_handler(Events.STARTED, self)
+
+    def __call__(self, engine):
+        checkpoint = torch.load(self.load_path)
+        Checkpoint.load_objects(to_load=self.load_dict, checkpoint=checkpoint)
+        print('Restored all variables from {}'.format(self.load_path))