/**
 * @license
 * Copyright 2024 Daymon Littrell-Reyes
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
import { LogData } from "../common";
import { SerializationConfig } from "../configuration";
/**
 * Encodes an element to a JSON string or returns the element as a string.
 *
 * Variant of {@link encodeToJson} that calls {@link tostring} on failure.
 *
 * @param element - The element to encode.
 *
 * @returns The JSON string if encoding is successful, otherwise the result of
 * calling {@link tostring} on the element.
 *
 * @internal
 */
export declare function encodeToJsonOrString(element: unknown): string;
/**
 * Serializes an element to a valid JSON element.
 *
 * @param config - The serialization configuration.
 * @param element - The element to encode.
 *
 * @returns A copy of the element with all values encoded as JSON-safe variants.
 *
 * @public
 */
export declare function serialize(config: SerializationConfig, element: LogData): LogData;
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