Package com.google.inject.spi

Interface ProviderBinding<T extends Provider<?>>

All Superinterfaces:

Binding<T>, Element

public interface ProviderBinding<T extends Provider<?>>
extends Binding<T>

A binding to a Provider that delegates to the binding for the provided type. This binding is used whenever a Provider<T> is injected (as opposed to injecting T directly).

Since:

2.0

Author:

jessewilson@google.com (Jesse Wilson)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Key<?>	getProvidedKey()	Returns the key whose binding is used to provide instances.

Methods inherited from interface com.google.inject.Binding

acceptScopingVisitor, acceptTargetVisitor, getKey, getProvider

Methods inherited from interface com.google.inject.spi.Element

acceptVisitor, applyTo, getSource

Method Detail

getProvidedKey

Key<?> getProvidedKey()

Returns the key whose binding is used to provide instances. That binding can be retrieved from an injector using Injector.getBinding(providedKey)