import { PortablePath } from '@yarnpkg/fslib';
import { Installer } from './Installer';
import { Project } from './Project';
import { Report } from './Report';
import { Locator, Package } from './types';
export declare type MinimalLinkOptions = {
    project: Project;
};
export declare type LinkOptions = MinimalLinkOptions & {
    report: Report;
};
/**
 * Linkers are the glue between the logical dependency tree and the way it's
 * represented on the filesystem. Their main use is to take the package data
 * and put them on the filesystem in a way that their target environment will
 * understand (for example, in Node's case, it will be to generate a .pnp.js
 * file).
 *
 * Note that *multiple linkers can coexist in the same dependency tree*. This
 * makes it possible to have a unique dependency tree containing packages from
 * different linkers.
 */
export interface Linker {
    /**
     * This function must return true if the specified package is understood by
     * this linker. Given that this function takes a package definition as
     * parameter (not only a locator), it's safe to use the languageName field
     * as detection method.
     *
     * @param locator The locator that needs to be validated.
     * @param opts The link options.
     */
    supportsPackage(pkg: Package, opts: MinimalLinkOptions): boolean;
    /**
     * This function must, given a specified locator, find the location where it
     * has been installed.
     *
     * Note that contrary to fetchers (that are allowed to return relatively
     * complex type of data source thanks to their filesystem abstractions), this
     * function is only allowed to return a path. That being said, the way this
     * path is interpreted is open to the package manager, though - in practice
     * it will be used on a ZipOpenFS, so you can return paths from within zip
     * archives.
     *
     * @param locator The queried package.
     * @param opts The link options.
     */
    findPackageLocation(locator: Locator, opts: LinkOptions): Promise<PortablePath>;
    /**
     * This function must, given a specified location on the disk, find the
     * locator for the package that owns it. This function is allowed to fail if
     * the location doesn't seem to be owned by any package covered by the
     * current linker, in which case it should return null.
     *
     * The main case where this function is called is when a postinstall script
     * for a third-party package calls another script of its. In this situation,
     * we must figure out who's making the "run" call, and we can't really rely
     * on anything else than the location on the disk to do so.
     *
     * @param location The queried location on the disk.
     * @param opts The link options.
     */
    findPackageLocator(location: PortablePath, opts: LinkOptions): Promise<Locator | null>;
    /**
     * This function must instantiate an Installer object that describes how to
     * install the packages on the disk. Check the Installer file for more
     * details on the installer design.
     *
     * @param opts The link options.
     */
    makeInstaller(opts: LinkOptions): Installer;
}