Writers keep what was read or refuse it: no [object Object], MATLAB's 1x1 cell, and host empties that keep their class

dist/datamodel/node/data/MatlabVariableNode.d.ts

@@ -485,6 +485,15 @@ export default class MatlabVariableNode extends DataNode {
     static _createScalar(value: unknown, type: string, name: string, parent: BaseNode | null): MatlabVariableNode;
     static parse(rawVal: unknown, name: string, parent: BaseNode | null): MatlabVariableNode;
     static parseScalar(rawVal: unknown, name: string, parent: BaseNode | null): MatlabVariableNode;
+    /**
+     * Does this scalar hold, untouched, the JSON object of no shape MATLAB writes that it was read
+     * as (parseScalar's last arm)? `{"foo": 1}`, `{}`, or a class marker left with no class,
+     * `{"_array_class": null, ...}`, which only a hand edit leaves in a text dictionary (see
+     * unshapedValue). It is shown as the JSON it holds (_formatScalar), written back to a text
+     * dictionary as read (serializeValue replays `_rawInput`), and refused by the XML writers
+     * (serializeXml), where it was the text `[object Object]` in a double's spelling.
+     */
+    _unshapedObject(): boolean;
     /**
      * struct([]) out of a text dictionary. Deliberately the same node
      * `_createFromMatStruct` builds for the same value — scalar kind, 'struct' class,

dist/datamodel/node/data/unshapedValue.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import type { ParseWarning } from '../../parser/ParseWarning.js';
+/**
+ * The JSON `value` is, cut at SHOWN_MAX characters. A value JSON cannot spell, which only a host
+ * can hand in (a bigint in it), is named by its first keys. Never throws.
+ */
+export declare function unshapedText(value: object): string;
+/** Record one object of no shape MATLAB writes, held by the node `at`. */
+export declare function recordUnshapedValue(at: {
+    readonly matlabPath: string;
+}, value: object): void;
+/** What a warning names: how many, and the first one's path and text. */
+export interface UnshapedValues {
+    count: number;
+    path: string;
+    text: string;
+}
+/** The objects recorded since the last call, which clears them, or null if there were none. */
+export declare function takeUnshapedValues(): UnshapedValues | null;
+/** The one warning for entry `part` whose read recorded `taken`. */
+export declare function unshapedValueWarning(part: string, taken: UnshapedValues): ParseWarning;
+//# sourceMappingURL=unshapedValue.d.ts.map