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import { Action } from './scheduler/Action';
import { Subscription } from './Subscription';
import { SchedulerLike, SchedulerAction } from './types';
/**
* An execution context and a data structure to order tasks and schedule their
* execution. Provides a notion of (potentially virtual) time, through the
* `now()` getter method.
*
* Each unit of work in a Scheduler is called an `Action`.
*
* ```ts
* class Scheduler {
* now(): number;
* schedule(work, delay?, state?): Subscription;
* }
* ```
*
* @class Scheduler
* @deprecated Scheduler is an internal implementation detail of RxJS, and
* should not be used directly. Rather, create your own class and implement
* {@link SchedulerLike}
*/
export declare class Scheduler implements SchedulerLike {
private SchedulerAction;
/**
* Note: the extra arrow function wrapper is to make testing by overriding
* Date.now easier.
* @nocollapse
*/
static now: () => number;
constructor(SchedulerAction: typeof Action, now?: () => number);
/**
* A getter method that returns a number representing the current time
* (at the time this function was called) according to the scheduler's own
* internal clock.
* @return {number} A number that represents the current time. May or may not
* have a relation to wall-clock time. May or may not refer to a time unit
* (e.g. milliseconds).
*/
now: () => number;
/**
* Schedules a function, `work`, for execution. May happen at some point in
* the future, according to the `delay` parameter, if specified. May be passed
* some context object, `state`, which will be passed to the `work` function.
*
* The given arguments will be processed an stored as an Action object in a
* queue of actions.
*
* @param {function(state: ?T): ?Subscription} work A function representing a
* task, or some unit of work to be executed by the Scheduler.
* @param {number} [delay] Time to wait before executing the work, where the
* time unit is implicit and defined by the Scheduler itself.
* @param {T} [state] Some contextual data that the `work` function uses when
* called by the Scheduler.
* @return {Subscription} A subscription in order to be able to unsubscribe
* the scheduled work.
*/
schedule<T>(work: (this: SchedulerAction<T>, state?: T) => void, delay?: number, state?: T): Subscription;
}