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Frederic Tardif commented on KAFKA-8523: ---------------------------------------- I believe an option should be exposed to configure the behaviour in order to either pass the null value unmodified or to apply the insert on an empty map. > InsertField transformation fails when encountering tombstone event > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-8523 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8523 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: KafkaConnect > Reporter: Gunnar Morling > Priority: Major > > When applying the {{InsertField}} transformation to a tombstone event, an > exception is raised: > {code} > org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.DataException: Only Map objects supported in > absence of schema for [field insertion], found: null > at > org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.util.Requirements.requireMap(Requirements.java:38) > at > org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertField.applySchemaless(InsertField.java:138) > at > org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertField.apply(InsertField.java:131) > at > org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertFieldTest.tombstone(InsertFieldTest.java:128) > {code} > AFAICS, the transform can still be made working in in this case by simply > building up a new value map from scratch. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.2#803003)