Configures the Injector to return an instance of useClass for a token.

interface ClassProvider extends ClassSansProvider {
  provide: any
  multi?: boolean

  // inherited from core/ClassSansProvider
  useClass: Type<any>
}

See also

• "Dependency Injection Guide".

Properties

Usage notes

abstract class Shape {
  name!: string;
}

class Square extends Shape {
  override name = 'square';
}

const injector = Injector.create({providers: [{provide: Shape, useValue: new Square()}]});

const shape: Shape = injector.get(Shape);
expect(shape.name).toEqual('square');
expect(shape instanceof Square).toBe(true);

Note that following two providers are not equal:

class Greeting {
  salutation = 'Hello';
}

class FormalGreeting extends Greeting {
  override salutation = 'Greetings';
}

const injector = Injector.create({
  providers: [
    {provide: FormalGreeting, useClass: FormalGreeting},
    {provide: Greeting, useClass: FormalGreeting},
  ],
});

// The injector returns different instances.
// See: {provide: ?, useExisting: ?} if you want the same instance.
expect(injector.get(FormalGreeting)).not.toBe(injector.get(Greeting));

Multi-value example

const locale = new InjectionToken<string[]>('locale');
const injector = Injector.create({
  providers: [
    {provide: locale, multi: true, useValue: 'en'},
    {provide: locale, multi: true, useValue: 'sk'},
  ],
});

const locales: string[] = injector.get(locale);
expect(locales).toEqual(['en', 'sk']);