Key Parsing Rough Edges

[GRVYDEV]

Hello,
I have recently configured snowflake-kafka-connector a couple of times and i noticed that the key parsing is quite fragile. I am curious if there is a way to potentially make the parsing clean up newlines in the key. Essentially before actually parsing the key, iterate through it and check if there is a valid ascii line after each newline character. If so, then remove the newline character. This may make it easier to get setup since I had quite a bit of trouble figuring out the root cause of the parse errors.

[JonathonO]

@GRVYDEV out of interest, are you referring to 'rough edges' like in the RECORD_METADATA where the key seems to have escaped unicode characters before it? For example (edited for sake of brevity):

{
  ...
  "key": "\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0018\u00148f14e45fce",
  "offset": 6,
  "partition": 0,
  ...
}

Feels like it's an escape sequence of some sort but not seeing any references to this issue, specifically.