import { Duration } from "../../../core";
import { IMetric, MetricConfig, MetricExpressionConfig, MetricStatConfig } from '../metric-types';
/**
 * Return a unique string representation for this metric.
 *
 * Can be used to determine as a hash key to determine if 2 Metric objects
 * represent the same metric. Excludes rendering properties.
 */
export declare function metricKey(metric: IMetric): string;
/**
 * Return the period of a metric
 *
 * For a stat metric, return the immediate period.
 *
 * For an expression metric, all metrics used in it have been made to have the
 * same period, so we return the period of the first inner metric.
 */
export declare function metricPeriod(metric: IMetric): Duration;
/**
 * Given a metric object, inspect it and call the correct function for the type of output
 *
 * In addition to the metric object itself, takes a callback object with two
 * methods, to be invoked for the particular type of metric.
 *
 * If the metric represent a metric query (nominally generated through an
 * instantiation of `Metric` but can be generated by any class that implements
 * `IMetric`) a particular field in its `toMetricConfig()` output will be set
 * (to wit, `metricStat`) and the `withStat()` callback will be called with
 * that object.
 *
 * If the metric represents an expression (usually by instantiating `MathExpression`
 * but users can implement `IMetric` arbitrarily) the `mathExpression` field
 * will be set in the object returned from `toMetricConfig` and the callback
 * called `withExpression` will be applied to that object.
 *
 * Will return the values returned by the callbacks.
 *
 * To be used as such:
 *
 * ```ts
 * const ret = dispatchMetric(someMetric, {
 *   withStat(stat) {
 *     // do something with stat
 *     return 1;
 *   },
 *   withExpression(expr) {
 *     // do something with expr
 *     return 2;
 *   },
 * });
 * ```
 *
 * This function encapsulates some type analysis that would otherwise have to be
 * repeated in all places where code needs to make a distinction on the type
 * of metric object that is being passed.
 */
export declare function dispatchMetric<A, B>(metric: IMetric, fns: {
    withStat: (x: MetricStatConfig, c: MetricConfig) => A;
    withExpression: (x: MetricExpressionConfig, c: MetricConfig) => B;
}): A | B;
