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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright 2020 The gRPC Authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Helper script to extract JSON scenario definitions from scenario_config.py
+
+import json
+import re
+import scenario_config
+import sys
+
+
+def get_json_scenarios(language_name, scenario_name_regex='.*', category='all'):
+    """Returns list of scenarios that match given constraints."""
+    result = []
+    scenarios = scenario_config.LANGUAGES[language_name].scenarios()
+    for scenario_json in scenarios:
+        if re.search(scenario_name_regex, scenario_json['name']):
+            # if the 'CATEGORIES' key is missing, treat scenario as part of 'scalable' and 'smoketest'
+            # this matches the behavior of run_performance_tests.py
+            scenario_categories = scenario_json.get('CATEGORIES',
+                                                    ['scalable', 'smoketest'])
+            # TODO(jtattermusch): consider adding filtering for 'CLIENT_LANGUAGE' and 'SERVER_LANGUAGE'
+            # fields, before the get stripped away.
+            if category in scenario_categories or category == 'all':
+                scenario_json_stripped = scenario_config.remove_nonproto_fields(
+                    scenario_json)
+                result.append(scenario_json_stripped)
+    return result
+
+
+def dump_to_json_files(json_scenarios, filename_prefix='scenario_dump_'):
+    """Dump a list of json scenarios to json files"""
+    for scenario in json_scenarios:
+        filename = "%s%s.json" % (filename_prefix, scenario['name'])
+        print('Writing file %s' % filename, file=sys.stderr)
+        with open(filename, 'w') as outfile:
+            json.dump(scenario, outfile, indent=2)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # example usage: extract C# scenarios and dump them as .json files
+    scenarios = get_json_scenarios('csharp',
+                                   scenario_name_regex='.*',
+                                   category='scalable')
+    dump_to_json_files(scenarios, 'scenario_dump_')