Amit Sela created KAFKA-6684:
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Summary: Support casting values with bytes schema to string
Key: KAFKA-6684
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6684
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: KafkaConnect
Reporter: Amit Sela
Casting from BYTES is not supported, which means that casting LogicalTypes is
not supported.
This proposes to allow casting anything to a string, kind of like Java's
{{toString()}}, such that if the object is actually a LogicalType it can be
"serialized" as string instead of bytes+schema.
Worst case, bytes are "casted" to whatever the {{toString()}} returns - its up
to the user to know the data.
This would help when using a JSON sink, or anything that's not Avro.
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