DI: provide an equivalent to @SkipSelf in Injector.get()

[youdz]

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Current behavior

It is currently possible, when injecting a dependency in a constructor, to use @Optional() to avoid an error when the dependency is not found, and @SkipSelf() to search directly on the parent injector. For instance, a typical use case for @SkipSelf() is self-nested components that need to inject their parent.

export class MyComponent {
  constructor(@Optional() @SkipSelf() parent: MyComponent) {}
}

When working with more "dynamic" dependency injection, however, you need to rely on an Injector object. It offers an equivalent to @Optional() by accepting a notFoundValue, but there is no way to emulate @SkipSelf(). The parent injector is not public, and the only method is .get() which will obviously look in this injector first.

Expected behavior

The get() method should accept a third optional argument allowing us to search directly on the parent injector:

abstract get<T>(token: Type<T>|InjectionToken<T>, notFoundValue?: T, skipSelf?: boolean): T;

It would default to false, evidently.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

It should be logical for Injector to offer the exact same capabilities as constructor-level dependency injection.

Please tell us about your environment

Angular version: 4.2.5

[darin-cardin]

Closing in on a year now. Any update on this. it seems like a simple fix, as the functionality already exists.

[agale123]

It appears that this functionality was added as part of #22005 in this commit

So if you want to use the equivalent of @SkipSelf you would write:
injector.get(Foo, undefined, InjectFlags.SkipSelf)

But when I call this from within a Directive and use SkipSelf it is still returning the current instance of the directive.

[chenlijun99]

Could it be related to #34066?

[mrkeathley]

This functionality was added to the Injector API but was not implemented in the NodeInjector class which seems like an oversight. I have been looking for an alternative but haven't found a way to use the SkipSelf flag from an autowired injector yet.

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[JoostK]

Closing as covered by #31776.

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