import * as i0 from "@angular/core";
/**
 * A service that provides various functions for en- and decoding data type strings in order to make them
 * meaningfully parseable by regex
 */
export declare class DataTypeEncoder {
    /**
     * Finds all substrings in a piece of text and replaces all special characters within with @@@...@@@-placeholders.
     *
     * @param text - The text to parse for substrings
     */
    encodeSubstrings(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Encodes all special characters that might be confused as code syntax in a piece of string
     *
     * @param text - The text to encode
     */
    encodeStringSpecialChars(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Decodes the special characters again
     *
     * @param text - The text to decode
     */
    decodeStringSpecialChars(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Finds all subfunctions in a piece of text and replaces their round brackets with @@@...@@@-placeholders.
     *
     * @param text - The text to parse for substrings
     */
    encodeSubfunctions(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Encodes all round brackets with harmless placeholders
     *
     * @param text - The text to encode
     */
    encodeFunctionBrackets(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Decodes all round brackets again
     *
     * @param text - The text to decode
     */
    decodeFunctionBrackets(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Finds all subbrackets in a piece of text and replaces their brackets with @@@...@@@-placeholders.
     *
     * @param text - The text to parse for substrings
     */
    encodeVariableSubbrackets(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Encodes all brackets with harmless placeholders
     *
     * @param text - The text to encode
     */
    encodeVariableBrackets(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Decodes all brackets again
     *
     * @param text - The text to encode
     */
    decodeVariableBrackets(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Transforms a context var (that is already encoded for substrings, subfunctions and subbrackets) into a string placeholder
     * by encoding the context var syntax itself. This is so that can be safely parsed by JSON.parse() as a string and also so it
     * won't be misinterpreted by other regexes looking for JSON syntax (especially arrays b/c of context-var []-property-brackets)
     *
     * @param contextVar - The context var to transform
     */
    transformContextVarIntoPlacerholder(contextVar: string): string;
    /**
     * Transforms a context var placeholder back into the actual context var
     *
     * @param contextVar - The placeholder context var
     */
    transformPlaceholderIntoContextVar(contextVar: string): string;
    /**
     * Takes a piece of text as well as array of TextSegments and encodes them with the help of an encodingFunction
     * The encoded text is then automatically assembled and returned.
     *
     * @param text - The text in question
     * @param specialTextSegments - The segments in the text to encode
     * @param encodingFunction - The encoding function to use
     */
    private encodeTextSegments;
    /**
     * Strips all escaping backslashes from a piece of text
     *
     * @param text - The text in question
     */
    stripSlashes(text: string): string;
    /**
     * Escapes all double quotes in a piece of text
     *
     * @param text - The text in question
     */
    escapeDoubleQuotes(text: string): string;
    static ɵfac: i0.ɵɵFactoryDeclaration<DataTypeEncoder, never>;
    static ɵprov: i0.ɵɵInjectableDeclaration<DataTypeEncoder>;
}