import { Binding } from './binding';
/**
 * Compare function to sort an array of bindings.
 * It is used by `Array.prototype.sort()`.
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
 * const compareByKey: BindingComparator = (a, b) => a.key.localeCompare(b.key);
 * ```
 */
export interface BindingComparator {
    /**
     * Compare two bindings
     * @param bindingA - First binding
     * @param bindingB - Second binding
     * @returns A number to determine order of bindingA and bindingB
     * - 0 leaves bindingA and bindingB unchanged
     * - <0 bindingA comes before bindingB
     * - >0 bindingA comes after bindingB
     */
    (bindingA: Readonly<Binding<unknown>>, bindingB: Readonly<Binding<unknown>>): number;
}
/**
 * Creates a binding compare function to sort bindings by tagged phase name.
 *
 * @remarks
 * Two bindings are compared as follows:
 *
 * 1. Get values for the given tag as `phase` for bindings, if the tag is not
 * present, default `phase` to `''`.
 * 2. If both bindings have `phase` value in `orderOfPhases`, honor the order
 * specified by `orderOfPhases`.
 * 3. If a binding's `phase` does not exist in `orderOfPhases`, it comes before
 * the one with `phase` exists in `orderOfPhases`.
 * 4. If both bindings have `phase` value outside of `orderOfPhases`, they are
 * ordered by phase names alphabetically and symbol values come before string
 * values.
 *
 * @param phaseTagName - Name of the binding tag for phase
 * @param orderOfPhases - An array of phase names as the predefined order
 */
export declare function compareBindingsByTag(phaseTagName?: string, orderOfPhases?: (string | symbol)[]): BindingComparator;
/**
 * Compare two values by the predefined order
 *
 * @remarks
 *
 * The comparison is performed as follows:
 *
 * 1. If both values are included in `order`, they are sorted by their indexes in
 * `order`.
 * 2. The value included in `order` comes after the value not included in `order`.
 * 3. If neither values are included in `order`, they are sorted:
 *   - symbol values come before string values
 *   - alphabetical order for two symbols or two strings
 *
 * @param a - First value
 * @param b - Second value
 * @param order - An array of values as the predefined order
 */
export declare function compareByOrder(a: string | symbol | undefined | null, b: string | symbol | undefined | null, order?: (string | symbol)[]): number;
/**
 * Sort bindings by phase names denoted by a tag and the predefined order
 *
 * @param bindings - An array of bindings
 * @param phaseTagName - Tag name for phase, for example, we can use the value
 * `'a'` of tag `order` as the phase name for `binding.tag({order: 'a'})`.
 *
 * @param orderOfPhases - An array of phase names as the predefined order
 */
export declare function sortBindingsByPhase<T = unknown>(bindings: Readonly<Binding<T>>[], phaseTagName?: string, orderOfPhases?: (string | symbol)[]): Readonly<Binding<T>>[];