https://github.com/cloudera-labs/envelope/blob/6709db64492ae3a608d1541a9663a7a71295b212/external/kafka/src/main/java/com/cloudera/labs/envelope/kafka/serde/AvroSerializer.java#L58 Code should check for nulls. Also, I guess docs might need to be clearer...