how do I get angular2 dependency injection to work

Question

I'm following the angular docs for Dependency Injection and tried to duplication the section on dependency injection tokens. But it's clear I still don't get it.

I'm trying to use a value provider to inject an config:any into my project.

At the simplest level, I just want to provide a const string

// app-modules.ts
const CFG_STRING = "I was declared externally and injected in ngModule"    
@NgModule({
  imports: [ BrowserModule ],
  declarations: [ App ],
  providers: [
    {provide: CFG_STRING, useValue: CFG_STRING}
  ],
  bootstrap: [ App ]
})

and inject into a Component constructor

// app.ts
const LOCAL_STRING = "I was declared in the local module"
export class App {
  constructor(
    // @Optional() cfgString: CFG_STRING
  ) {
    this.name = 'Angular2'
    this.local = LOCAL_STRING

    /* provided/injected */
    // this.injectedStr = cfgString
  }
}

But when I do so the app doesn't run correctly. What am I doing wrong?

Here's a plunkr: http://plnkr.co/edit/sQwxyDqLkMTgVUjJ1yYF?p=preview

Answer 1

If you don't use a type as key for the provider but instead a string or OpaqueToken you need to pass the key to @Inject()

constructor(
    @Inject('CFG_STRING') /* @Optional()*/ cfgString: CFG_STRING
  ) {

and provide it like

  providers: [
    {provide: 'CFG_STRING', useValue: CFG_STRING}
  ],

CFG_STRING is not a type and can therefore not be used as key. Either you use some string or mentioned an OpaqueToken. It can be any string, it just needs to match between provide and @Inject()