Editor and primitive types

I have a simple class that contains an integer:
class Whatever{
  int theInteger;
  public int getTheInteger(){
    return theInteger;
  }
  public void setTheInteger(int i){
    theInteger = i;
  }
  // getters, setters, etc.
}
so I created an Editor like so:

public class WhateverEditor extends Composite implements Editor<Whatever> {
    @UiField
    IntegerBox theInteger;
    // other fields

  interface Binder extends UiBinder<Widget, WhateverEditor> {
    }

    public WhateverEditor() {
      Binder binder = GWT.create(Binder.class);
      initWidget(binder.createAndBindUi(this));
    }
}

This will not compile with an error that says:
  Found unexpected type long while evauating path "theInteger" using getter expression ""
  Unable to create Editor model due to previous errors

If I replace the type of theInteger from int to Integer in the Whatever class then it compiles fine. But I want to have int as theInteger type.
There should be a simple solution but i could not find it. Any help is much appreciated.

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