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Randall Hauch commented on KAFKA-6685: -------------------------------------- [~adireddijagad...@gmail.com], please ask the Kafka committers to add you to the contributor list. See http://kafka.apache.org/contributing.html for details. Then you will be able to assign this to yourself. Feel free to submit a PR, per those guidelines. For example, the PR title and commits should begin with "KAFKA-6685: " followed by a meaningful one-sentence summary. > Connect deserialization log message should distinguish key from value > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-6685 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6685 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: KafkaConnect > Reporter: Yeva Byzek > Priority: Minor > Labels: newbie > > Connect was configured for Avro key and value but data had String key and > Avro value. The resulting error message was misleading because it didn't > distinguish key from value, and so I was chasing problems with the value > instead of the key. > tl;dr Connect should at least tell you whether the problem is with > deserializing the key or value of a record > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)