Kafka connect is sending a malformed json
问题 I'm trying to perform a proof of concept using kafka-connect with a rabbitMQ connector. Basically, I have two simple spring boot applications; a RabbitMQ producer and a Kafka consumer. The consumer can not handle the messages from the connector because it's transforming somehow my JSON message; RabbitMQ sends {"transaction": "PAYMENT", "amount": "$125.0"} and kafka-connect prints X{"transaction": "PAYMENT", "amount": "$125.0"} . Please note the X at the beginning. If I add a field, let's say