add initial python version of script to add metadata to sbom

combiner.py

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import json
+
+with open("sample-metadata.json", "r") as metadata_file:
+    with open("workspace/target/OpenJDK-sbom.json", "r") as sbom_file:
+        metadata = json.loads(metadata_file.read())
+        sbom = json.loads(sbom_file.read())
+        if "metadata" not in sbom:
+            sbom["metadata"] = {}
+        if "properties" not in sbom["metadata"]:
+            sbom["metadata"]["properties"] = []
+        properties_to_skip = [
+            "version"
+        ]  # todo: do we flatten this? or put it somewhere else in some meaningful way? cyclone dx wasn't expecting a dict
+        properties_to_flatten = [
+            ""
+        ]  # todo: BUILD_CONFIGURATION_param - are these redundant/should we just skip this, or is this what andrew means we should add to that bash script arg
+        for property in metadata:
+            if property in properties_to_skip:
+                continue
+            if property in properties_to_flatten:
+                for sub in metadata[property]:
+                    sbom["metadata"]["properties"].append(
+                        {"name": sub, "value": json.dumps(metadata[property])}
+                    )
+            print(property)
+            print(metadata[property])
+            print("\n\n\n")
+            sbom["metadata"]["properties"].append(
+                {"name": property, "value": metadata[property]}
+            )
+        with open("sbom_modified.json", "w") as out:
+            out.write(json.dumps(sbom, indent=True))

configureBuild.sh

@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ setVariablesForConfigure() {
   BUILD_CONFIG[TEST_IMAGE_PATH]=$openjdk_test_image_path
   BUILD_CONFIG[DEBUG_IMAGE_PATH]=$openjdk_debug_image_path
   BUILD_CONFIG[STATIC_LIBS_IMAGE_PATH]=$static_libs_path
+  BUILD_CONFIG[USER_SUPPLIED_CONFIGURE_ARGS]="--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --openjdk-target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
 }
 
 # Set the repository to build from, defaults to adoptium if not set by the user