p.location-badge.
  exported from <a href='../di'>angular2/di</a>
  defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/2.0.0-alpha.33/modules/angular2/src/di/metadata.ts#L83-L106">angular2/src/di/metadata.ts (line 83)</a>

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  Specifies that an injector should retrieve a dependency from itself.
  
  ## Example
  
  ```
  class Dependency {
  }
  
  class NeedsDependency {
    constructor(public @Self() dependency:Dependency) {}
  }
  
  var inj = Injector.resolveAndCreate([Dependency, NeedsDependency]);
  var nd = inj.get(NeedsDependency);
  expect(nd.dependency).toBeAnInstanceOf(Dependency);
  ```
  
  

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