Github user aledsage commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/612
  
    @bostko (cc @tbouron) Thinking about this more, I'm not sure what types we 
should support for tags. Maybe accepting any object is a bad idea, as it might 
make subsequent features harder to support (e.g. support for looking up / 
processing tags).
    
    On the other hand, locking down the types to be just strings without a good 
reason seems too extreme.
    
    Looking at the REST api 
(`org.apache.brooklyn.rest.resources.EntityResource.listTags()`), it turns the 
tags into json via the standard mechanism. It can therefore handle non-string 
types. if you use something that does not have a good json representation, then 
it becomes a lot less useful. But arguably that's the user's problem 
(presumably they had a reason for putting the object in the tags in the first 
place).


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