Hi Kishore,

This isn't possible. The fields should be optional in the first place. I
always use the table from Confluence:
https://docs.confluent.io/current/schema-registry/avro.html

The way to do this is to only add, or delete optional fields.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards, Fokko

Op di 7 jul. 2020 om 20:57 schreef KV 59 <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to remove a field which is required in the old schema (which is
> by default)
>
> long field1;
>
>
> and want to remove the field in the updated schema I made it optional and
> nullable
>
> union {null, long} field1 = null;
>
>
> Now the new schema can read the objects from the old schema (Backward
> compatible) but not the other way round (Forward compatible).
>
> What is the best strategy to have both?
>
> Thanks
> Kishore
>
>

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