Record path API chooses CHOICE[STRING, RECORD] when the field is missing

[Mike Thomsen]

I have a simple avro schema in a test case that looks like this:

{
    "type": "record",
    "name": "PersonRecord",
    "fields": [
        { "name": "firstName", "type": "string" },
        { "name": "lastName", "type": "string" },
        { "name": "creationDateTime", "type": [ "null", "type": "long",
"logicalType": "timestamp-millis" }]
    ]
}

Then I try something like this...

RecordPath path = recordPathCache.getCompiled("/creationDateTime");
RecordPathResult rp = path.evaluate(targetRecord);
Optional<FieldValue> nodeField = rp.getSelectedFields().findFirst();

if (!nodeField.isPresent()) {
    throw new ProcessException("...");
}

FieldValue fieldValue = nodeField.get();
//fieldValue.getField() is a Choice of String, Record

Is there a way to get the correct field type here? I assume that
Choice[String, Record] default here was done to facilitate schema inference.

Thanks,

Mike