Unable to inject ActivatedRouteSnapshot

Question

Injecting ActivatedRouteSnapshot into a component is not working (and neither is injecting ActivatedRoute). Here the stack trace:

"Error: Can't resolve all parameters for ActivatedRouteSnapshot: (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?).
at SyntaxError.ZoneAwareError (http://localhost:4200/polyfills.bundle.js:7042:33)
at SyntaxError.BaseError [as constructor] (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:73735:16)
at new SyntaxError (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:6140:16)
at CompileMetadataResolver._getDependenciesMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:19345:31)
at CompileMetadataResolver._getTypeMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:19220:26)
at CompileMetadataResolver._getInjectableMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:19208:21)
at CompileMetadataResolver.getProviderMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:19450:40)
at http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:19408:49
at Array.forEach (native)
at CompileMetadataResolver._getProvidersMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:19375:19)
at CompileMetadataResolver.getNonNormalizedDirectiveMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:18848:30)
at CompileMetadataResolver._loadDirectiveMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:18736:23)
at http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:18937:54
at Array.forEach (native)
at CompileMetadataResolver.loadNgModuleDirectiveAndPipeMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:18936:41)"

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In the component, ActivatedRouteSnapshot is injected as follows:

constructor([...], private router: Router,
          private route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot) {
    [...]
}

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ActivatedRouteSnapshot is provided in app.component.ts:

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    templateUrl: './app.component.html',
    styleUrls: ['./app.component.css'],
    providers: [[...], ActivatedRouteSnapshot]
})

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I'm trying to access the query params similarly to how it is done here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38997116/3433306

According to the docs it should be as simple as adding it to the constructor parameters: https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/api/router/index/ActivatedRouteSnapshot-interface.html

What am I missing to successfully inject ActivatedRouteSnapshot?

Answer 1

Use ActivatedRoute instead of ActivatedRouteSnapshot. Then you can use the snapshot like this:

constructor(activatedRoute: ActivatedRoute) { 
  var snapshot = activatedRoute.snapshot;
}