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You can’t have a WeakReference<ServiceDelegate>. ServiceDelegate itself is not an AnyObject, it just requires that anything that conforms to it be an AnyObject.

You would need to make SomeClass generic and use the generic type as the type for the WeakReference:

class SomeClass<T: ServiceDelegate> {
    private var observers = [WeakReference<T>]()
}

If the generic on SomeClass is too constricting and you want to be able to have instances of multiple unrelated classes as observers then I would do it by abandoning the generic parameter on WeakReference:

final class WeakServiceDelegate {
    private(set) weak var value: ServiceDelegate?

    init(value: ServiceDelegate?) {
        self.value = value
    }
}

class SomeClass {
    private var observers = [WeakServiceDelegate]()
}

Alternatively you could make WeakReference conditionally conform to ServiceDelegate:

extension WeakReference: ServiceDelegate where T: ServiceDelegate {
    func doIt() {
        value?.doIt()
    }
}

And then use an array of ServiceDelegate in SomeClass:

class SomeClass {
    private var observers = [ServiceDelegate]()

    func addObserver<T: ServiceDelegate>(_ observer: T) {
        observers.append(WeakReference(value: observer))
    }
}

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