Critical Description
Casting from BYTES is not supported, which means that casting LogicalTypes is not supported.
This proposes to allow casting anything to a string, kind of like Java's toString(), such that if the object is actually a LogicalType it can be "serialized" as string instead of bytes+schema.
Examples: BigDecimal will cast to the string representation of the number. Timestamp will cast to the string representation of the timestamp, or maybe UTC yyyymmddTHH:MM:SS.f format?
Worst case, bytes are "casted" to whatever the toString() returns - its up to the user to know the data.
This would help when using a JSON sink, or anything that's not Avro.
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KAFKA-12170 Connect Cast cannot deal with fields of type "bytes" correctly
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