import { VerifyDrift } from '../../helpers/types.js';
export type DirDiffResult = {
    /** Files whose contents are semantically different (real drift). */
    drift: VerifyDrift[];
    /**
     * Files where the only delta is sibling/attribute ordering. Surfaced for awareness — these are
     * NOT failures, since Salesforce metadata is generally order-agnostic and `config-disassembler`
     * does not preserve original sibling order.
     */
    reordered: string[];
};
/**
 * Recursively diff two directory trees. Files in the reference tree are compared against the
 * mock tree; files that exist only in the mock tree are intentionally ignored, so the helper is
 * safe to use against round-trip output that contains transient sidecars (e.g.
 * `.config-disassembler.json`) which the original tree never had.
 *
 * For `.xml` files, comparison is **structural and order-insensitive**: sibling elements with the
 * same tag name can appear in any order without registering as drift. Files that are byte-different
 * but semantically equal are returned in `reordered` so the caller can surface the difference.
 */
export declare function diffDirectories(referenceDir: string, mockDir: string, prefix?: string): Promise<DirDiffResult>;
/**
 * Compare two XML files for structural equality, ignoring sibling order and attribute order.
 * Falls back to `false` if either side fails to parse, so genuinely malformed output still
 * surfaces as drift through the caller.
 */
export declare function xmlEquivalent(refPath: string, mockPath: string): boolean;
/**
 * Convert any JSON value into a stable string representation: object keys are sorted, and arrays
 * are sorted by the canonical-JSON of each element. Two values produce the same canonical string
 * iff they are deeply equal up to sibling order.
 */
export declare function canonicalJson(value: unknown): string;