import type { HardhatRuntimeEnvironment } from 'hardhat/types/hre';
import type { NetworkConnection } from 'hardhat/types/network';
import type { StringWithArtifactContractNamesAutocompletion } from 'hardhat/types/artifacts';
import type { ContractReturnType, KeyedClient, WalletClient } from '@nomicfoundation/hardhat-viem/types';
import type { Address } from 'viem';
import type { ContractInfo, EngineBinding } from '../engine/binding.js';
import { ViemExecOptions } from './viem-binding.js';
import type { Libraries, TransactionOptions } from './options.js';
/**
 * A contract address, or a viem contract instance with an `address` property.
 */
export type ContractAddressOrInstance = Address | {
    address: Address;
};
/**
 * Asserts that the plugins required by the viem-based API are in use for the given connection:
 * @nomicfoundation/hardhat-viem, which creates the contract instances that the API returns and
 * signs and broadcasts the plugin's transactions.
 */
export declare function assertRequiredPlugins(connection: NetworkConnection): void;
export declare function getContractAddress(addressOrInstance: ContractAddressOrInstance): Address;
export declare function isAddress(value: string): value is Address;
/**
 * Returns the given address as a checksummed viem address, so that the addresses returned by
 * the viem-based API are consistently checksummed regardless of the caller's input case.
 * Throws if the value is not an address or has an invalid checksum.
 */
export declare function asAddress(value: string): Address;
/**
 * Resolves the wallet client whose account signs the transactions sent by the plugin: the given
 * wallet client, or by default the first wallet client of the connection. Unlike the previous
 * implementation, accounts that sign client-side (viem local accounts) are supported, since the
 * plugin now signs through viem itself.
 */
export declare function resolveWalletClient(connection: NetworkConnection, walletClient: WalletClient | undefined): Promise<WalletClient>;
/**
 * Builds the engine binding for the viem-based API from the options' wallet client and transaction
 * parameters.
 */
export declare function makeBinding(hre: HardhatRuntimeEnvironment, connection: NetworkConnection, opts?: TransactionOptions): Promise<EngineBinding>;
/**
 * Builds the engine binding for read-only operations (validations, force-import) that never sign a
 * transaction, so they work even when the connection has no accounts. Uses the options' wallet
 * client if one is given, otherwise the connection's first wallet client if available.
 */
export declare function makeReadBinding(hre: HardhatRuntimeEnvironment, connection: NetworkConnection, opts?: {
    client?: KeyedClient;
}): Promise<EngineBinding>;
/**
 * Extracts the transaction parameters from the viem-based options.
 */
export declare function execOptions(opts: TransactionOptions & {
    timeout?: number;
    pollingInterval?: number;
}): ViemExecOptions;
/**
 * Reads the contract's ABI and library-linked creation bytecode from the project artifacts,
 * for use as the engine's client-neutral contract identity.
 */
export declare function getContractInfo(hre: HardhatRuntimeEnvironment, contractName: string, libraries?: Libraries): Promise<ContractInfo>;
/**
 * Reads only a contract's ABI from the project artifacts, for functions that use the ABI to encode
 * an initializer call but never deploy the contract's bytecode.
 */
export declare function getAbi(hre: HardhatRuntimeEnvironment, contractName: string): Promise<import("hardhat/types/artifacts").Abi>;
/**
 * Gets a viem contract instance for the named contract at the given address, using
 * `connection.viem.getContractAt` so that the result follows hardhat-viem conventions.
 */
export declare function getViemContractAt<ContractName extends StringWithArtifactContractNamesAutocompletion>(connection: NetworkConnection, contractName: ContractName, address: Address, client?: KeyedClient): Promise<ContractReturnType<ContractName>>;
/**
 * Builds a viem contract instance at `address` for the given ABI, usable for reads even when the
 * connection has no accounts. A wallet client (the provided one, or the connection's first account)
 * enables writes; without one the instance is read-only — so attaching to an existing contract does
 * not require an account, mirroring the ethers-based API. Used by `forceImport`, which records the
 * deployment without needing an account and so must be able to return an instance without one.
 */
export declare function attachViemContract<ContractName extends StringWithArtifactContractNamesAutocompletion>(connection: NetworkConnection, abi: ContractInfo['abi'], address: Address, client?: KeyedClient): Promise<ContractReturnType<ContractName>>;
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