Add test cases so we catch the upcoming changes in mysql-binlog-connector 1.0. From https://github.com/shyiko/mysql-binlog-connector-java/pull/131#issuecomment-263158666: > * DATETIME/DATETIME_V2/TIMESTAMP/TIMESTAMP_V2/DATE/TIME/TIME_V2 deserialization to longs (Unix timestamp). > This is BACKWARD-INCOMPATIBLE change. > * BINARY/VARBINARY deserialization (shyiko/mysql-binlog-connector-java#56). > This is BACKWARD-INCOMPATIBLE change as CHAR/VARCHAR/BINARY/VARBINARY are now returned as byte[] (which you can obviously convert to String with new String(byte[], Charset) if needed).