export type IIncludeOrIgnore = 'Ignore' | 'Include';
export interface ICompareObject {
    obj: any;
    title: string;
    idx: number;
    status: 'Match' | 'NotFound' | 'NoMatch';
}
export interface IComparePair {
    obj1: ICompareObject;
    obj2: ICompareObject;
}
export interface ICompareKeysResult {
    flagKeys: string[];
    flagStyle: IIncludeOrIgnore;
    ignoredKeys: string[];
    compareKeys: string[];
    keyChanges: null | any;
    identicalKeys: string[];
    differentKeys: string[];
    newKeys: string[];
    success: boolean;
}
export declare function buildEmptyCompareResults(ignoreKeys: string[], flagStyle: IIncludeOrIgnore): ICompareKeysResult;
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/**
 * This function will
 *     take 2 flat objects baselineObject & compareObject
 *     take array of strings to compare with baselineObject keys
 *     take flagStyle which tells to include or ignore keys found in flagKeys
 *
 *     return compareKeysResult object back which gives all information regarding comparing the 2 objects
 *
 * @param baselineObject
 * @param compareObject
 * @param flagKeys
 * @param flagStyle
 * @param parseMe
 */
export declare function compareFlatObjects(baselineObject: any, compareObject: any, flagKeys: string[], flagStyle: IIncludeOrIgnore): ICompareKeysResult;
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/**
 * This looks for keys of a data object based on an array of strings called flagKeys.
 * It will return an array of actual keys from baselineObject that match the search criteria
 * flagKeys example:  ['=Id','Date','By']
 * baselineObject keys:  ['Id','id','UserId','Title','ModifiedDate','CreatedBy','Category1','SubCategory1']
 *
 * flagStyle = 'Include':  compareKeys = ['Id','ModifiedDate','CreatedBy'],
 *    NOTE:  UserId would not be returned because criteria '=Id' will look for exact match.
 *    id is not return because search is case sensitive
 *
 * flagStyle = 'Ignore':  compareKeys = ['id','UserId','Title','Category1','SubCategory1'],
 *    NOTE:  Id is not included because this it will be ignored.  UserId is included because '=Id' looks for exact match
 *    ModifiedDate && CreatedBy is excluded because setting is ignore for Date and By
 *
 * @param baselineObject
 * @param flagKeys
 * @param flagStyle
 */
export declare function getListOfKeysToCompare(baselineObject: any, flagKeys: string[], flagStyle: IIncludeOrIgnore): ICompareKeysResult;
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