When you read data from a Kafka topic in binary format and write the data to a target in string format, edit the metadata of the

data

field in the Kafka source and change the platform data type from binary to string.

When you read data from a source in string format and write the data to the

data

field in a Kafka topic in string format, edit the metadata of the

data

field in the Kafka target and change the platform data type from binary to string.

In both the scenarios, you need to change only the platform data type from binary to string without altering the native data type.