JacksonGenerator serializes byte[] as array of numbers

[mziccard]

Is this the preferred behavior?

As far as I know Jackson by default encodes byte[] to Base64 strings, why this change? In there any point where the array of numbers representation is useful?

I am asking because this behavior forces users to do the base64 encoding by themselves when loading BYTES data into a BigQuery table using TableDataInsertAllRequest.

[mattwhisenhunt]

Thanks for raising this issue. With Google Cloud libraries coming out this may stay pretty far down in the queue unless we get a PR and a user letting us know it is an essential fix for them.