Shikhar Bhushan created KAFKA-4068:
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             Summary: FileSinkTask - use JsonConverter to serialize
                 Key: KAFKA-4068
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4068
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: KafkaConnect
            Reporter: Shikhar Bhushan
            Assignee: Shikhar Bhushan
            Priority: Minor


People new to Connect often try out hooking up e.g. a Kafka topic with Avro 
data to the file sink connector, only to find the file contain values like:

{noformat}
org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Struct@ca1bf85a
org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Struct@c298db6a
org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Struct@44108fbd
{noformat}

This is because currently the {{FileSinkConnector}} is meant as a toy example 
that expects the schema to be {{Schema.STRING_SCHEMA}}, though it just 
{{toString()}}'s the value without verifying that. 

A better experience would probably be if we used 
{{JsonConverter.fromConnectData()}} for serializing to the file.



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