feat(di): drop support for injecting types with generics in Dart

modules/angular2/src/core/di.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export {
   ResolvedProvider,
   provide
 } from './di/provider';
-export {Key, TypeLiteral} from './di/key';
+export {Key} from './di/key';
 export {
   NoProviderError,
   AbstractProviderError,

modules/angular2/src/core/di/key.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 import {stringify, CONST, Type, isBlank} from 'angular2/src/facade/lang';
 import {BaseException, WrappedException} from 'angular2/src/facade/exceptions';
-import {TypeLiteral} from './type_literal';
 import {resolveForwardRef} from './forward_ref';
 
-export {TypeLiteral} from './type_literal';
-
 /**
  * A unique object used for retrieving items from the {@link Injector}.
  *
@@ -53,13 +50,6 @@ export class KeyRegistry {
   get(token: Object): Key {
     if (token instanceof Key) return token;
 
-    // TODO: workaround for https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/3123
-    var theToken = token;
-    if (token instanceof TypeLiteral) {
-      theToken = token.type;
-    }
-    token = theToken;
-
     if (this._allKeys.has(token)) {
       return this._allKeys.get(token);
     }

modules/angular2/test/core/linker/integration_dart_spec.dart

@@ -42,27 +42,6 @@ void functionThatThrowsNonError() {
 }
 
 main() {
-  describe('TypeLiteral', () {
-    it(
-        'should publish via viewBindings',
-        inject([TestComponentBuilder, AsyncTestCompleter], (tb, async) {
-          tb
-              .overrideView(
-                  Dummy,
-                  new ViewMetadata(
-                      template:
-                          '<type-literal-component></type-literal-component>',
-                      directives: [TypeLiteralComponent]))
-              .createAsync(Dummy)
-              .then((tc) {
-            tc.detectChanges();
-            expect(asNativeElements(tc.debugElement.children))
-                .toHaveText('[Hello, World]');
-            async.done();
-          });
-        }));
-  });
-
   describe('Error handling', () {
     it(
         'should preserve Error stack traces thrown from components',
@@ -216,19 +195,6 @@ class Dummy {
   dynamic value;
 }
 
-@Component(
-    selector: 'type-literal-component',
-    viewBindings: const [
-      const Binding(const TypeLiteral<List<String>>(),
-          toValue: const <String>['Hello', 'World'])
-    ])
-@View(template: '{{list}}')
-class TypeLiteralComponent {
-  final List<String> list;
-
-  TypeLiteralComponent(this.list);
-}
-
 @Component(selector: 'throwing-component')
 @View(template: '')
 class ThrowingComponent {

modules/angular2/test/public_api_spec.ts

@@ -1291,8 +1291,6 @@ var NG_CORE = [
   'GetTestability:dart',
   'setTestabilityGetter()',
   'Type:js',
-  'TypeLiteral',
-  'TypeLiteral.type',
   'PACKAGE_ROOT_URL',
   'View',
   'View.directives',

tools/public_api_guard/public_api_spec.ts

@@ -446,8 +446,6 @@ const CORE = [
   'TypeDecorator',
   'TypeDecorator.Class(obj:ClassDefinition):ConcreteType',
   'TypeDecorator.annotations:any[]',
-  'TypeLiteral',
-  'TypeLiteral.type:any',
   'ViewChildFactory',
   'ViewChildMetadata',
   'ViewChildMetadata.constructor(_selector:Type|string)',