1 /** 2 * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 17 package com.google.inject.spi; 18 19 import com.google.inject.Binding; 20 import com.google.inject.Provider; 21 22 import java.util.Set; 23 24 /** 25 * A binding to a provider instance. The provider's {@code get} method is invoked to resolve 26 * injections. 27 * 28 * @author jessewilson@google.com (Jesse Wilson) 29 * @since 2.0 30 */ 31 public interface ProviderInstanceBinding<T> extends Binding<T>, HasDependencies { 32 33 /** 34 * If the user supplied a JSR330 binding, then this will wrap that one. To always return the 35 * user-supplied provider, use {@link #getUserSuppliedProvider}. 36 * 37 * @deprecated Use {@link #getUserSuppliedProvider} instead. 38 */ 39 @Deprecated getProviderInstance()40 Provider<? extends T> getProviderInstance(); 41 42 /** 43 * Returns the user-supplied, unscoped provider. 44 * @since 4.0 45 */ getUserSuppliedProvider()46 javax.inject.Provider<? extends T> getUserSuppliedProvider(); 47 48 /** 49 * Returns the field and method injection points of the provider, injected at injector-creation 50 * time only. 51 * 52 * @return a possibly empty set 53 */ getInjectionPoints()54 Set<InjectionPoint> getInjectionPoints(); 55 56 }