Nonfunctional changes only

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/ByteField.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/ByteField.java
index 22069d0270c..8fdc093122e 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/ByteField.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/fastsearch/ByteField.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ public class ByteField extends DocsumField {
         if (value == EMPTY_VALUE) {
             return NanNumber.NaN;
         } else {
-            return Byte.valueOf(value);
+            return value;
         }
     }