Bugfix #28: ClassCastException if configuration is provided

scala.util.parsing.JSON.parseRaw() returns an Option[JSONType] - None if
it could not decode it or Some(x) if it could. x may also be of another
type (like JSONArray), so the code now throws a DecodeException if it
wasn't decodeable.
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Fix #28: Add tests to verify Vert.x/Scala JSON conversion works