config: add a method to get all releases

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/config.py b/lib/python/config.py
index 61f633ee28..c445dadb6c 100644
--- a/lib/python/config.py
+++ b/lib/python/config.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
 
+# TODO: the OrderedDict use can be dropped once we use Python 3 (>= 3.7)
+from collections import OrderedDict
 import json
 import os
 
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ def get_config():
         d = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 
         with open(d + '/../../data/config.json') as f:
-            config = json.load(f)
+            config = json.load(f, object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
 
         _config = config['distributions']
 
@@ -37,6 +39,11 @@ def get_supported_releases():
 
     return [d for d in config.keys() if 'release' in config[d]]
 
+def get_all_releases():
+    config = get_config()
+
+    return config.keys()
+
 def get_release_codename(release, suffix=''):
     config = get_config()