Try-Me seems to send message as byte[] array and not text

Hi,

Using the the try-me functionality of the Solace Cloud Console to publish a message. The problem is that it seems to sends the message as byte array while my consumer code expects it to be a string. I don't want to change the consumer code but rather instruct Try-Me to send message as text and receive it as is.

Is it known that I should anticipate message as bytes and not as text from Try-Me and hence need the inevitable conversion ?

While I want to avoid something like this on my Consumer side

public void handleNewMessageFromSolaceUI(byte[] json) {
handleNewMessage(new String(json));
}