stagehand/lib/index.d.ts

import Stagehand from './stagehand';
import { RemoteType, HandlerType, MethodsOnly } from './utils/types';
declare const STAGEHAND_INSTANCE = "--stagehand-instance";
/**
 * The remote implementation of a type `T`. It only includes `T`s methods, and the return values
 * of those methods are all made async if they weren't already.
 */
export declare type Remote<T> = RemoteType<MethodsOnly<T>> & {
    [STAGEHAND_INSTANCE]: Stagehand;
};
/**
 * The necessarily implementation type of an intended remote interface `T`. All methods in
 * `Implementation<T>` are allowed to return promises even if the corresponding method in `T`
 * does not, but `Implementation<T>` also requires that all incoming callbacks be async, since
 * they correspond to a remote type themselves.
 */
export declare type Implementation<T> = HandlerType<T>;
/**
 * The minimal interface needed for stagehand communication. The `adapters` directory contains
 * utilities for converting common types (e.g. Node's `ChildProcess` or the Web's `MessagePort`)
 * into `MessageEndpoint`s.
 */
export interface MessageEndpoint {
    onMessage(callback: (message: unknown) => void): void;
    sendMessage(message: unknown): void;
    disconnect(): void;
}
/**
 * Given a message endpoint and a backing implementation object, listens for a connection on the
 * given endpoint and responds to commands that come in over it. This function will typically be
 * called in whatever secondary thread/process will be servicing commands from the primary.
 */
export declare function launch<T>(endpoint: MessageEndpoint, implementation: Implementation<T>): Promise<Stagehand>;
/**
 * Given a message endpoint (and typically an explicit type parameter indicating the interface of
 * the remote implementation), returns a promise that will resolve when successfully connected to
 * the implementation on the other side of that endpoint.
 *
 * The resulting object will have methods defined on it that correspond to those of the backing
 * implementation, returning a promise for the eventual result of that method.
 */
export declare function connect<T>(endpoint: MessageEndpoint): Promise<Remote<T>>;
/**
 * Given a remote object (as returned from `connect`), disconnects from the source and closes the connection.
 */
export declare function disconnect<T>(remote: Remote<T>): void;
export {};