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Sarvesh Yadav
Sarvesh Yadav

Reputation: 2620

What is the difference between @Inject and @Injectable in Angular 2 typescript

I don't understand When to use @Inject and when to use @Injectable ?

  import {Component, Inject, provide} from '@angular/core';
    import {Hamburger} from '../services/hamburger'; 
    export class App {
       bunType: string;
       constructor(@Inject(Hamburger) h) {
         this.bunType = h.bun.type;
       }
     }

And..

  import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';
    import {Bun} from './bun';
    @Injectable()
    export class Hamburger {
      constructor(public bun: Bun) {
      }
    }

Upvotes: 15

Views: 27756

Answers (2)

info2ankit
info2ankit

Reputation: 303

You must read this difference- @Inject and @Injectable

@Inject()

is a manual mechanism for letting Angular know that a parameter must be injected.

When using TypeScript, @Inject is only needed for injecting primitives. For eg:

export class AppComponent {
  encryption = this.chatWidget.chatSocket.encryption;

  constructor(@Inject(ChatWidget) private chatWidget) { }
}

@Injectable()

lets Angular know that a class can be used with the dependency injector.

For eg:

@Injectable()
export class ChatWidget {
constructor(
    public authService: AuthService,
    public authWidget: AuthWidget,
    public chatSocket: ChatSocket) { }
}

In the above example Angular's injector determines what to inject into ChatWidget's constructor by using type information

Upvotes: 6

Thierry Templier
Thierry Templier

Reputation: 202196

The @Injectable decorator aims to actually set some metadata about which dependencies to inject into the constructor of the associated class. It's a class decorator that doesn't require parameters. Without this decorator no dependency will be injected...

@Injectable()
export class SomeService {
  constructor(private http:Http) {
  }
}

The @Inject decorator must be used at the level of constructor parameters to specify metadata regarding elements to inject. Without it, the type of parameters is used (obj:SomeType is equivalent to @Inject(SomeType) obj).

@Injectable()
export class SomeService {
  constructor(@Inject(Http) private http:Http, @Inject('sometoken') obj) {
  }
}

Upvotes: 15

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