Hey Martin, Thanks for flagging this and for providing the template! It makes it really easy to reproduce. It looks like there is in fact a bug. Whenever the Schema is created from the AvroSchemaRegistry, it is marking all fields except for the top-level fields as as 'nullable'.
I created a JIRA [1] to track the issue and should have a PR up soon to address it. Many Thanks! -Mark [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4671 On Dec 6, 2017, at 5:25 AM, Martin Mucha <alfon...@gmail.com<mailto:alfon...@gmail.com>> wrote: I don't really understand what you're asking for... In attachment you have nifi template, avro template is: { "name": "aRecord", "type": "record", "namespace": "a", "fields": [ { "name": "a", "type": { "name": "bRecord", "type":"record", "fields": [ { "name": "b", "type": "string"} ] } } ] } and incorrectly validated json file is: {"a":{}} In given flow it's validated as valid, although required filed b is missing. ConvertJsonToAvro on the other hand rejects the very same json using the very same avro schema. Is this all you need? If not, what do you need from me? I probably don't have 'reproducible repository' -- I don't even know what that is. Martin. 2017-12-06 11:07 GMT+01:00 Juan Pablo Gardella <gardellajuanpa...@gmail.com<mailto:gardellajuanpa...@gmail.com>>: Could you share a reproducible repo or files? El mié., 6 de dic. de 2017 07:00, Martin Mucha <alfon...@gmail.com<mailto:alfon...@gmail.com>> escribió: Hi, I have JSON like: { "a": { "b": "1" } } and corresponding avro schema (written for the sake of this e-mail, need not to be 100% accurate) { "name": "aRecord", "type": "record", "namespace": "a", "fields": [ { "name": "a", "type": { "name": "bRecord", "type":"record", "fields": [ { "name": "b", "type": "string"} ] } } ] } In ConvertJsonToAvro processor, json missing field "b": {"a":{}} will be rejected, while in ValidateRecord it will be accepted as valid (which is not valid according to schema). Is there anything I can do about it? Is it bug? thanks, Martin. <fail.xml>