diff --git a/ui/fixtures/cmd.basic.json b/ui/fixtures/cmd.basic.json
index 9a6b96b..ba2cfa5 100644
--- a/ui/fixtures/cmd.basic.json
+++ b/ui/fixtures/cmd.basic.json
@@ -182,10 +182,37 @@
 	"special": "iter is unique"
 },
 {
-	"skip": 1,
 	"title": "dump is correct",
 	"cmd": [ "dump" ],
 	"exit": 0,
-	"stdout": "ERROR: tag needs to start with a \"+\" (add) or a \"-\" (remove).\n"
+	"stdout_re": "{.*filename.*newfile.txt.*hashes.*90f8342520f0ac57fb5a779f5d331c2fa87aa40f8799940257f9ba619940951e67143a8d746535ed0284924b2b7bc1478f095198800ba96d01847d7b56ca465c.*size.*19.*type.*file.*}\n{.*foo.*bar=baz.*hashes.*90f8342520f0ac57fb5a779f5d331c2fa87aa40f8799940257f9ba619940951e67143a8d746535ed0284924b2b7bc1478f095198800ba96d01847d7b56ca465c.*type.*metadata.*}\n{.*filename.*test.txt.*90f8342520f0ac57fb5a779f5d331c2fa87aa40f8799940257f9ba619940951e67143a8d746535ed0284924b2b7bc1478f095198800ba96d01847d7b56ca465c.*size.*19.*type.*file.*}\n{.*filename.*newfile.txt.*90f8342520f0ac57fb5a779f5d331c2fa87aa40f8799940257f9ba619940951e67143a8d746535ed0284924b2b7bc1478f095198800ba96d01847d7b56ca465c.*size.*19.*type.*file.*}\n{.*filename.*newfile.txt.*90f8342520f0ac57fb5a779f5d331c2fa87aa40f8799940257f9ba619940951e67143a8d746535ed0284924b2b7bc1478f095198800ba96d01847d7b56ca465c.*size.*19.*type.*file.*}\n"
+},
+{
+	"title": "that import can be done",
+	"cmd": [ "import" ],
+	"stdin": "{\"created_by_ref\": \"e7ad5ea1-1203-4951-9dca-ec852a7b8166\", \"foo\": [\"bar=baz\"], \"hashes\": [\"sha512:90f8342520f0ac57fb5a779f5d331c2fa87aa40f8799940257f9ba619940951e67143a8d746535ed0284924b2b7bc1478f095198800ba96d01847d7b56ca465c\"], \"modified\": \"2022-08-21T00:13:51.245871Z\", \"sig\": \"g7k4plXjzz9y8YwJM2ncCIxaqlBpdbITPvKlDtfO7LSFmbZ-qcj0M0lN9h8twNU-n163dNsDGmQA4_s8pJB0liBHDwkjpYQvxfeztQDWNaVN7Xnh2MOj-wBzUbLTVnsJULXwVQrUjngzWjjGQ3jy6gwA\", \"tag\": [\"\"], \"type\": \"metadata\", \"uuid\": \"25ec10e6-c3d0-4363-a762-899dade7f93c\"}\n{\"created_by_ref\": \"2de7a389-410c-4755-8c62-f3254c7e971e\", \"dir\": \"\", \"filename\": \"FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-ROCK64-20220331-d53927b0bae-254105.img.xz\", \"hashes\": [\"sha512:3eba2aa09a79fd7adec32ace93c6725e75b91a55192b5bfa827b893fae1c2cdbc040e282138387797f245c1f27da5e8ff7a02f59ff75c73b3d999d1e0a8752ad\"], \"id\": \"d9e8fc1a-9794-5e70-b67b-11d708ec8947\", \"modified\": \"2022-08-02T07:52:50.216428Z\", \"mtime\": \"2022-03-31T10:15:14.000000Z\", \"sig\": \"F3Ch1BQB57RAgFNKNF5btCRZS3jFmafhvcdoWuu6WHo5JzyhuQ7jNvZkv4tzgWqlMfPecLJMMmSAMcwqorykDWi854ZfKUm3F-JOTk8R7qRKdHd23rwVGDEXtVHv-kynkh8WemPsfc2V1HT8JKG9NhwA\", \"size\": 551750948, \"type\": \"file\", \"uuid\": \"89544934-6ed9-46ca-b8d0-77c5209f798d\"}\n"
+},
+{
+	"special": "verify store object cnt",
+	"comment": "and the objects were imported",
+	"count": 7
+},
+{
+	"title": "than an object can be dropped",
+	"cmd": [ "drop", "25ec10e6-c3d0-4363-a762-899dade7f93c" ]
+},
+{
+	"special": "verify store object cnt",
+	"comment": "and the object was dropped",
+	"count": 6
+},
+{
+	"title": "than an object can be dropped",
+	"cmd": [ "drop", "89544934-6ed9-46ca-b8d0-77c5209f798d" ]
+},
+{
+	"special": "verify store object cnt",
+	"comment": "and the object was dropped",
+	"count": 5
 }
 ]
diff --git a/ui/medashare/cli.py b/ui/medashare/cli.py
index 2cb764d..ce655e0 100644
--- a/ui/medashare/cli.py
+++ b/ui/medashare/cli.py
@@ -529,6 +529,20 @@ class ObjectStore(object):
 
 		return obj
 
+	def drop_uuid(self, uuid):
+		uuid = _makeuuid(uuid)
+
+		obj = self.by_id(uuid)
+
+		del self._uuids[uuid]
+
+		if obj.type == 'file':
+			del self._uuids[obj.id]
+
+		for j in obj.hashes:
+			h = self.makehash(j)
+			self._hashes[h].remove(obj)
+
 	def by_id(self, id):
 		'''Look up an object by it's UUID.'''
 
@@ -772,7 +786,7 @@ def cmd_dump(options):
 	persona, objstr = get_objstore(options)
 
 	for i in objstr:
-		print(repr(i))
+		print(i.encode('json'))
 
 def cmd_list(options):
 	persona, objstr = get_objstore(options)
@@ -807,6 +821,33 @@ def cmd_list(options):
 
 	write_objstore(options, objstr)
 
+def cmd_import(options):
+	persona, objstr = get_objstore(options)
+
+	jd = json.JSONDecoder()
+
+	inp = sys.stdin.read()
+
+	while inp:
+		inp = inp.strip()
+		jobj, endpos = jd.raw_decode(inp)
+
+		obj = MDBase.create_obj(jobj)
+
+		objstr.loadobj(obj)
+
+		inp = inp[endpos:]
+
+	write_objstore(options, objstr)
+
+def cmd_drop(options):
+	persona, objstr = get_objstore(options)
+
+	for i in options.uuids:
+		objstr.drop_uuid(i)
+
+	write_objstore(options, objstr)
+
 def main():
 	import argparse
 
@@ -847,6 +888,14 @@ def main():
 	parser_dump = subparsers.add_parser('dump', help='dump all the objects')
 	parser_dump.set_defaults(func=cmd_dump)
 
+	parser_import = subparsers.add_parser('import', help='import objects encoded as json')
+	parser_import.set_defaults(func=cmd_import)
+
+	parser_drop = subparsers.add_parser('drop', help='drop the object specified by UUID')
+	parser_drop.add_argument('uuids', nargs='+',
+	    help='UUID of object to drop')
+	parser_drop.set_defaults(func=cmd_drop)
+
 	options = parser.parse_args()
 
 	fun = options.func
@@ -1349,10 +1398,19 @@ class _TestCases(unittest.TestCase):
 			with self.subTest(file=f, title=cmd['title']), \
 			    mock.patch('os.path.expanduser',
 			    side_effect=expandusermock) as eu, \
+			    mock.patch('sys.stdin', io.StringIO()) as stdin, \
 			    mock.patch('sys.stdout', io.StringIO()) as stdout, \
 			    mock.patch('sys.stderr', io.StringIO()) as stderr, \
 			    mock.patch('sys.argv', [ 'progname', ] +
 			    cmd['cmd']) as argv:
+
+				# if there is stdin
+				test_stdin = cmd.get('stdin', '')
+
+				# provide it
+				stdin.write(test_stdin)
+				stdin.seek(0)
+
 				with self.assertRaises(SystemExit) as cm:
 					main()