/**
 * @license
 * Copyright Google LLC All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
 * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.dev/license
 */
import { Type } from '../interface/type';
/**
 * Creates a token that can be used in a DI Provider.
 *
 * Use an `InjectionToken` whenever the type you are injecting is not reified (does not have a
 * runtime representation) such as when injecting an interface, callable type, array or
 * parameterized type.
 *
 * `InjectionToken` is parameterized on `T` which is the type of object which will be returned by
 * the `Injector`. This provides an additional level of type safety.
 *
 * <div class="docs-alert docs-alert-helpful">
 *
 * **Important Note**: Ensure that you use the same instance of the `InjectionToken` in both the
 * provider and the injection call. Creating a new instance of `InjectionToken` in different places,
 * even with the same description, will be treated as different tokens by Angular's DI system,
 * leading to a `NullInjectorError`.
 *
 * </div>
 *
 * {@example injection-token/src/main.ts region='InjectionToken'}
 *
 * When creating an `InjectionToken`, you can optionally specify a factory function which returns
 * (possibly by creating) a default value of the parameterized type `T`. This sets up the
 * `InjectionToken` using this factory as a provider as if it was defined explicitly in the
 * application's root injector. If the factory function, which takes zero arguments, needs to inject
 * dependencies, it can do so using the [`inject`](api/core/inject) function.
 * As you can see in the Tree-shakable InjectionToken example below.
 *
 * Additionally, if a `factory` is specified you can also specify the `providedIn` option, which
 * overrides the above behavior and marks the token as belonging to a particular `@NgModule` (note:
 * this option is now deprecated). As mentioned above, `'root'` is the default value for
 * `providedIn`.
 *
 * The `providedIn: NgModule` and `providedIn: 'any'` options are deprecated.
 *
 * @usageNotes
 * ### Basic Examples
 *
 * ### Plain InjectionToken
 *
 * {@example core/di/ts/injector_spec.ts region='InjectionToken'}
 *
 * ### Tree-shakable InjectionToken
 *
 * {@example core/di/ts/injector_spec.ts region='ShakableInjectionToken'}
 *
 * @publicApi
 */
export declare class InjectionToken<T> {
    protected _desc: string;
    /** @internal */
    readonly ngMetadataName = "InjectionToken";
    readonly ɵprov: unknown;
    /**
     * @param _desc   Description for the token,
     *                used only for debugging purposes,
     *                it should but does not need to be unique
     * @param options Options for the token's usage, as described above
     */
    constructor(_desc: string, options?: {
        providedIn?: Type<any> | 'root' | 'platform' | 'any' | null;
        factory: () => T;
    });
    /**
     * @internal
     */
    get multi(): InjectionToken<Array<T>>;
    toString(): string;
}
export interface InjectableDefToken<T> extends InjectionToken<T> {
    ɵprov: unknown;
}