import { MetaAttributes } from '../helpers/types.js';
export type ParentXmlFile = {
    /** Absolute path to the parent metadata XML file. */
    filePath: string;
    /** Component identity, used to resolve component-scope config overrides. */
    fullName: string;
};
/**
 * One-level `readdir` of `dir`, filtered to files ending in `.${metaSuffix}-meta.xml`.
 * Same glob `perFileHandler` (`decomposeFileHandler.ts`) already uses. Returns `[]`
 * when `dir` doesn't exist, matching the swallow-errors convention used elsewhere for
 * directory walks (e.g. `getPackageDirectories.searchRecursively`).
 */
export declare function listSuffixFiles(dir: string, metaSuffix: string): Promise<ParentXmlFile[]>;
/**
 * List every parent metadata XML file on disk for a resolved metadata type, mirroring the file
 * shapes `decomposeFileHandler.ts` discovers during a real decompose — but read-only, and without
 * the override-driven `perFileHandler` vs. whole-directory split (that split only changes *how*
 * real decompose disassembles a file, not *which* files exist; every file this function finds
 * would eventually be visited by a real decompose run one way or another).
 *
 * `fullName` on each result is the same component identity `decomposeFileHandler.ts` uses to
 * resolve component-scope config overrides (directory basename for `strictDirectoryName`/
 * `folderType` types, filename minus the meta suffix ending otherwise).
 */
export declare function listParentXmlFilesForType(metaAttributes: MetaAttributes, manifestXmlPaths?: Set<string>): Promise<ParentXmlFile[]>;