security_tools/tools/ubuntu_package_puller/export_to_json.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# export job that will use existing class code to export to json

import json
from package_version_history import PackageVersionHistory as pvh

# start with just ubuntu 22.04 
distro_version = '22.04'

source_pkgs_filepath = './package_data/ubuntu_22.04_source_packages.container'

source_file = open(source_pkgs_filepath, 'r')
lines = source_file.readlines()

results = []

for source_pkgname in lines:
    pkg = source_pkgname.strip()
    print(pkg)
    name_and_versions = pvh(
        pkg, distro_version).package_name_and_version_history()
    results.append(name_and_versions)
    print(name_and_versions)

# create json of the results
json_obj = json.dumps(results)
json_arr = json.loads(json_obj)

# write to a file
with open('./version_history_data/ubuntu_latest_source_package_version_history.container', 'w') as outfile:
    json.dump(json_arr, outfile, indent=4)