import type { PathLike } from 'fs';
import type { RParseRequest } from '../../r-bridge/retriever';
/**
 * Just a readable alias for file paths, mostly for documentation purposes.
 * We separate {@link PathLike} types from string paths that are used for project paths.
 */
export type FilePath = string;
/**
 * Some files have a special meaning in R projects, e.g., the `DESCRIPTION` file in R packages.
 * This list may be extended in the future and reflects files that the {@link FlowrAnalyzer} can do something interesting with.
 * If you add an interesting file that is only part of your plugin infrastructure, please use the `other` role.
 */
export declare enum FileRole {
    /** The `DESCRIPTION` file in R packages, this is the only currently supported special file. */
    Description = "description",
    /** The `NAMESPACE` file in R packages, currently not specially supported. */
    Namespace = "namespace",
    /** The `NEWS` file in R packages */
    News = "news",
    /** Vignette files, e.g., R Markdown files in the `vignettes/` folder */
    Vignette = "vignette",
    /** Test source files, e.g., files in the `tests/` folder */
    Test = "test",
    /** Data files, e.g., `R/sysdata.rda`, currently not specially supported. */
    Data = "data",
    /** Signals separate license files, but please note, that DESCRIPTION files may contain license info too */
    License = "license",
    /**
     * Catch-all for any file that provides usable R source code to incorporate into the analysis.
     * Please note, that the loading order/inclusion and even potential relevance of these source files
     * is determined by the loading order plugins (cf. {@link PluginType.LoadingOrder})
     * in the {@link FlowrAnalyzerLoadingOrderContext}.
     */
    Source = "source",
    /** Other special files that are not specifically supported by flowR but may be interesting for some analyses. */
    Other = "other"
}
export type StringableContent = {
    toString(): string;
};
/**
 * This is the basic interface for all files known to the FlowrAnalyzer.
 * You can implement this interface to provide custom file loading mechanisms.
 * Mostly, we will be interested in text files (or decorations thereof).
 * If you want to load other file types, you either have to transform them into a presentation supported by flowR
 * or add your own file loader plugin (similar to the {@link FlowrAnalyzerDescriptionFilePlugin}).
 *
 * See {@link FlowrFile} for a basic single-cache implementation and {@link FlowrTextFile} for a text-file specific implementation.
 * If you want to pass in inline text files, see {@link FlowrInlineTextFile}.
 * @typeParam Content - The type of the content returned by the `content()` method.
 */
export interface FlowrFileProvider<Content extends {
    toString(): string;
} = {
    toString(): string;
}> {
    /**
     * The role(s) of this file, if any, in general your file should _not_ decide for itself what role it has in the project context,
     * this is for the loaders plugins to decide (cf. {@link PluginType}) as they can, e.g., respect ignore files, updated mappings, etc.
     * However, they will 1) set this role as soon as they decide on it (using {@link assignRole}) and 2) try to respect an already assigned role (however, user configurations may override this).
     */
    roles?: readonly FileRole[];
    /**
     * The path to the file, this is used for identification and logging purposes.
     * If the file does not exist on disk, this can be a virtual path (e.g. for inline files).
     * Even though this is a getter, please make sure that the operation is cheap and deterministic (some decorators may overwrite the path, e.g., because they support other protocols).
     */
    path(): string;
    /**
     * The content of the file, this may be cached by the implementation and does not have to be expensive.
     * You can used stream based implementations but right now there is no external, project-wide expressions of life cycles for files.
     * So make sure your implementation closes the resource as soon as possible.
     */
    content(): Content;
    /**
     * Assign a role to this file, this should be done by the loader plugins (cf. {@link PluginType}).
     * **Do not call this method yourself unless you are a file-loader plugin and/or really know what you are doing, this may break plugin assumptions!**
     */
    assignRole(role: FileRole): void;
}
/**
 * A basic implementation of the {@link FlowrFileProvider} interface that caches the content after the first load (i.e., updates on disk are ignored).
 *
 * See {@link FlowrTextFile} for a text-file specific implementation and {@link FlowrInlineTextFile} for inline text files.
 */
export declare abstract class FlowrFile<Content extends StringableContent = StringableContent> implements FlowrFileProvider<Content> {
    private contentCache;
    protected filePath: PathLike;
    private _roles?;
    static readonly INLINE_PATH = "@inline";
    constructor(filePath: PathLike, roles?: readonly FileRole[]);
    get roles(): readonly FileRole[] | undefined;
    path(): string;
    content(): Content;
    /**
     * Allows to overwrite the content cache.
     * @protected
     */
    protected setContent(content: Content): void;
    protected abstract loadContent(): Content;
    assignRole(role: FileRole): void;
    /**
     * Creates a {@link FlowrFile} from a given {@link RParseRequest}.
     * @see {@link FlowrTextFile}
     * @see {@link FlowrInlineTextFile}
     */
    static fromRequest(request: RParseRequest): FlowrFile<string>;
}
/**
 * A basic implementation of the {@link FlowrFileProvider} interface for text files that caches the content after the first load (i.e., updates on disk are ignored).
 */
export declare class FlowrTextFile extends FlowrFile<string> {
    protected loadContent(): string;
}
/**
 * A basic implementation of the {@link FlowrFileProvider} interface for (constant) inline text files.
 * This is also useful for "special" files like the `DESCRIPTION` file in R packages that you want to pass in directly.
 * These will be handled by the {@link FlowrAnalyzerDescriptionFilePlugin} (e.g., by using the {@link FlowrDescriptionFile#from} method decorator).
 */
export declare class FlowrInlineTextFile extends FlowrFile<string> {
    private readonly contentStr;
    constructor(path: PathLike, content: string);
    protected loadContent(): string;
}