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package com.google.inject.spi;
import com.google.inject.Binding;
import com.google.inject.Key;
/**
* A binding to a provider key. To resolve injections, the provider key is first resolved, then that
* provider's {@code get} method is invoked.
*
* @author [email protected] (Jesse Wilson)
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface ProviderKeyBinding extends Binding {
/**
* Returns the key used to resolve the provider's binding. That binding can be retrieved from an
* injector using {@link com.google.inject.Injector#getBinding(Key)
* Injector.getBinding(providerKey)}
*/
Key> getProviderKey();
}