import type { InitializationStatus } from './boilerplateTemplates';
/**
 * Parameters controlling one string-record merge into a JSON file.
 */
type MergeStringRecordJsonFileOptions = {
    readonly projectPath: string;
    readonly relativeFilePath: string;
    readonly fieldPath: string;
    readonly nextEntries: Readonly<Record<string, string>>;
    readonly ensureParentDirectoryPath?: string;
};
/**
 * Result of one additive string-record merge into a JSON file.
 *
 * @private internal utility of `coder init` command
 */
export type MergedStringRecordJsonFile = {
    /**
     * Status describing whether the JSON file had to be created or updated.
     */
    readonly status: InitializationStatus;
    /**
     * Keys which were missing in the JSON file and therefore added by the merge.
     */
    readonly addedEntryKeys: ReadonlyArray<string>;
};
/**
 * Ensures one JSON object field contains the provided string-record entries.
 *
 * Entries which the project already defines are **never** overridden - only missing keys are added,
 * so hand-tuned scripts and settings survive every repeated `ptbk coder init`.
 *
 * @private function of `initializeCoderProjectConfiguration`
 */
export declare function mergeStringRecordJsonFile({ projectPath, relativeFilePath, fieldPath, nextEntries, ensureParentDirectoryPath, }: MergeStringRecordJsonFileOptions): Promise<MergedStringRecordJsonFile>;
export {};