[fix][client] Use byte schema for DLQ topic to avoid client side schema validation
Fixes #20635
Motivation
When broker side schema validation is disabled and consumer receives an Avro message that has an incompatible schema then sending messages to DLQ fails due to a client side schema validation. This causes a fast loop that starts creating producers for DLQ topic, consumer gets stuck and explodes the number of producer metrics exposed from broker. Example implementation of this issue.
Modifications
By not inferring the DLQ producer schema from the consumer schema and just producing them as byte schema, this issue is fixed.
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This change is already mostly covered by existing tests, such as org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.ConsumerImplTest.
However, to cover this specific verification edge case org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.ConsumerImpl would need to refactored to expose possibleSendToDeadLetterTopicMessages for stubbing. Alternatively, a more complicated component test would be needed that would cover the complete ConsumerImpl.messageReceived(CommandMessage cmdMessage, ByteBuf headersAndPayload, ClientCnx cnx). This would need to deal with encryption and compression. Did not find an example to base this potential test, so I am not sure what approach to take here.
Manually checked that the problem was solved in the constructed example.
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