Jim Hughes

Hi @sagimedina1, many times Protobuf does not model nulls and instead nulls are mapped to default values. For strings, the default value is the empty string, and for numbers, the...

Hi @sagimedina1 fair point. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that there is either a limitation with how ksqlDB handles nullable columns with Protobuf or there are some...

@AlanConfluent do we still want this change? If so, there may be some plans which need to be generated.

Relates to https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql/issues/9245. @letaoj I'd propose adding a new artifact which shades the dependencies. At the same time, we could document using that new artifact in samples. Would using that...

Hi @suhas-satish, I think we are good. That's the PR which addresses this issue and https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql/issues/9245. This issue is asking to shade the dependencies; the other issue isn't quite a...

This comes from a discussion in the Confluent Community Slack here: https://confluentcommunity.slack.com/archives/C6UJNMY67/p1656071040539269.

@suhas-satish Yes. If we shade the dependencies, we could document how to use the new shaded dependency at that time. I can take it (if no one else comes to...

The merged PR should close this out once the docs are merged in 0.29.

@colinhicks thoughts on the function name here?

@JimGalasyn since I just merged this PR, do I need to cherry-pick it to an 0.28.x branch?