/**
 * @license
 * Copyright 2022-2026 Matter.js Authors
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 */
import { ElementTag, Metatype } from "../common/index.js";
import { BaseElement } from "./BaseElement.js";
import { FieldElement } from "./FieldElement.js";
import { ValueElement } from "./ValueElement.js";
/**
 * A datatype represents a named, standalone type definition.
 */
export interface DatatypeElement extends ValueElement {
    tag: `${DatatypeElement.Tag}`;
    /**
     * A "metatype" provides enough semantics for us to translate a value into
     * a native datatype.  Metatype is only required on global datatypes, and
     * only when the datatype should map directly to a specific native (JS)
     * type.
     */
    metatype?: `${Metatype}`;
    /**
     * You can only reference a datatype by name.  It does not have an ID.
     */
    id?: undefined;
    children?: FieldElement[];
}
export declare function DatatypeElement(definition: DatatypeElement.Properties, ...children: ValueElement[]): DatatypeElement;
export declare namespace DatatypeElement {
    const Tag = ElementTag.Datatype;
    type Tag = typeof ElementTag.Datatype;
    type Properties = BaseElement.Properties<DatatypeElement>;
    /**
     * Convert a TypeScript enum to Matter enum values.
     *
     * Matter enums include conformance and other metadata.  They may also have multiple definitions of the same value
     * selectable by conformance.  So we can't use a TypeScript enum directly.
     */
    function ListValues(values: ValueMap): ListValues;
    /**
     * We express enum values as IntElements as this gives us conformance and other metadata.
     */
    type ListValues = FieldElement[];
    /**
     * Per the Matter specification, enums are named integers.  The following allows TypeScript enums to be supplied for
     * translation into Matter enums.  To do so, we must accept both numeric and string values.  For generating the
     * Matter enum we ignore the string keys.
     */
    type ValueMap = {
        [name: string]: number | string;
    };
}
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