Fail to deserialize byte fields

[salyh]

private byte numByte;

numByte = (byte) 6;

getter/setters omitted

JSON:
"numByte":6

Caused by: com.owlike.genson.JsonBindingException: Could not deserialize to property 'numByte' of class class model.Simple
    at com.owlike.genson.reflect.PropertyMutator.couldNotDeserialize(PropertyMutator.java:49)
    at com.owlike.genson.reflect.PropertyMutator.deserialize(PropertyMutator.java:32)
    at com.owlike.genson.reflect.BeanDescriptor.deserialize(BeanDescriptor.java:109)
    at com.owlike.genson.reflect.BeanDescriptor.deserialize(BeanDescriptor.java:92)
    at com.owlike.genson.convert.NullConverter$NullConverterWrapper.deserialize(NullConverter.java:56)
    at com.owlike.genson.convert.CircularClassReferenceConverterFactory$CircularConverter.deserialize(CircularClassReferenceConverterFactory.java:30)
    at com.owlike.genson.convert.DefaultConverters$ArrayConverter.deserialize(DefaultConverters.java:264)
    at com.owlike.genson.convert.NullConverter$NullConverterWrapper.deserialize(NullConverter.java:56)
    at com.owlike.genson.reflect.PropertyMutator.deserialize(PropertyMutator.java:30)
    ... 27 more
Caused by: com.owlike.genson.stream.JsonStreamException: Expected a String to convert to byte array found INTEGER
    at com.owlike.genson.stream.JsonReader.valueAsByteArray(JsonReader.java:298)
    at com.owlike.genson.convert.DefaultConverters$ByteConverter.deserialize(DefaultConverters.java:570)
    at com.owlike.genson.convert.DefaultConverters$ByteConverter.deserialize(DefaultConverters.java:557)
    at com.owlike.genson.convert.NullConverter$NullConverterWrapper.deserialize(NullConverter.java:56)
    at com.owlike.genson.reflect.PropertyMutator.deserialize(PropertyMutator.java:30)
    ... 34 more

[EugenCepoi]

Hey @salyh thanks for reporting this.
In fact a single byte is ser/de with the same mechanism as a byte array (base64 encoded string). The idea was to stay symmetric.
However it is unoptimal, I am changing it to ser/de a single byte as an integer.
It could be made configurable, but maybe not worth to surcharge the API with additional options, until someone needs it...