Update: I ended up writing a small extension to the DAML LF API Type Signature library extracting those type metadata which are needed for codegen, e.g. for variants:
{
"path" : "<path/to/the/dalf.dalf>",
"kind" : "variant",
"typeConstructor" : "<type constructor of the variant>",
"options" : [
{
"valueConstructor" : "<value constructor of option #1>",
"fields" : 0
},
{
"valueConstructor" : "<value constructor of option #2>",
"fields" : 1
}
],
"typeParams" : 0
},