Creates a token that can be used in a DI Provider.

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class InjectionToken<T> {
  constructor(_desc: string, options?: { providedIn?: Type<any> | "root" | "platform" | "any"; factory: () => T; })
  protected _desc: string
  toString(): string
}

Description

Use an InjectionToken whenever the type you are injecting is not reified (does not have a runtime representation) such as when injecting an interface, callable type, array or parameterized type.

InjectionToken is parameterized on T which is the type of object which will be returned by the Injector. This provides an additional level of type safety.

interface MyInterface {...}
const myInterface = injector.get(new InjectionToken<MyInterface>('SomeToken'));
// myInterface is inferred to be MyInterface.

When creating an InjectionToken, you can optionally specify a factory function which returns (possibly by creating) a default value of the parameterized type T. This sets up the InjectionToken using this factory as a provider as if it was defined explicitly in the application's root injector. If the factory function, which takes zero arguments, needs to inject dependencies, it can do so using the inject function. As you can see in the Tree-shakable InjectionToken example below.

Additionally, if a factory is specified you can also specify the providedIn option, which overrides the above behavior and marks the token as belonging to a particular @NgModule. As mentioned above, 'root' is the default value for providedIn.

Further information is available in the Usage Notes...

Constructor

constructor(_desc: string, options?: { providedIn?: Type<any> | "root" | "platform" | "any"; factory: () => T; }) Parameters _desc string Description for the token, used only for debugging purposes, it should but does not need to be unique options object Options for the token's usage, as described above Optional. Default is undefined.

Properties

Property	Description
protected _desc: string	Declared in Constructor Description for the token, used only for debugging purposes, it should but does not need to be unique

Methods

toString()
toString(): string Parameters There are no parameters. Returns string

Usage notes

Basic Examples

Plain InjectionToken

const BASE_URL = new InjectionToken<string>('BaseUrl');
const injector =
    Injector.create({providers: [{provide: BASE_URL, useValue: 'http://localhost'}]});
const url = injector.get(BASE_URL);
// Note: since `BASE_URL` is `InjectionToken<string>`
// `url` is correctly inferred to be `string`
expect(url).toBe('http://localhost');

Tree-shakable InjectionToken

class MyService {
  constructor(readonly myDep: MyDep) {}
}

const MY_SERVICE_TOKEN = new InjectionToken<MyService>('Manually constructed MyService', {
  providedIn: 'root',
  factory: () => new MyService(inject(MyDep)),
});

const instance = injector.get(MY_SERVICE_TOKEN);
expect(instance instanceof MyService).toBeTruthy();
expect(instance.myDep instanceof MyDep).toBeTruthy();