feat: Test cases for datatypes

[priyankaku]

Contributes to: event-integration/eventstreams-planning#12893
Signed-off-by: Priyanka.K.U [email protected]

[Joel-hanson]

@priyankaku I have updated your branch against main, but I don't have access to you repo to push those changes. could you please provide the access to push the changes.

[Joel-hanson]

The latest changes in the github action is to configure the timezone to suite the tests timezone.

Currently the tests check for datatype:

• Date
• Time
• Timestamp

[Joel-hanson]

Initial testing identified that the Converter doesn't support logical types (Decimal, Timestamp, Time, Date) - only the primitive/base types.

We've started investigating what would be involved to add support for logical types.

Here is an example of what would be needed to add support for Decimal - the other logical types will be similar.

Remember: Converters can be used in two directions:

SOURCE (Map/Struct/etc. -> XML string)
schemas.enable = true

input: Struct, that includes a Connect schema
output: XML, and an XSD schema

schemas.enable = false

input: Struct, that includes a Connect schema
output: XML

input: Map (with no schema information)
output: XML

SINK (XML string -> Map/Struct)
schemas.enable = true

input: XML, with XSD xs:decimal with no further restrictions
output: Connect Struct, and a Connect Schema - mapping the xs:decimal to a double

input: XML, with XSD xs:decimal with fractionDigit restrictions on precision
output: Connect Struct, and a Connect Schema - mapping the xs:decimal to a Decimal logical type

schemas.enable = false

input: XML
output: Map

So there are six scenarios that need to be addressed before we can claim the Converter supports the Decimal logical type