Take baselines/showcase/src/v1beta1/gapic_metadata.json.baseline, make sure it can be parsed by Python protobuf JSON loading code like this one:
from google.protobuf.json_format import Parse
import gapic_metadata_pb2
with open("baselines/showcase/src/v1beta1/gapic_metadata.json.baseline", "r") as f:
metadata = Parse(f.read(), gapic_metadata_pb2.GapicMetadata())
print(metadata)