Cannot sink kafka topic into influxdb - json

Question

My Topic Schema looks like this,
{
"schema": {
"type": "string",
"optional": false
},
"payload": "{...}"
}
I am trying to sink this into an Influx DB instance with this configuration,
curl -X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"connector.class":"io.confluent.influxdb.InfluxDBSinkConnector",
"tasks.max": "1",
"topics" : "mongo-sink-json.tractor.job",
"influxdb.url": "http://10.100.87.169:8086",
"influxdb.db": "mongo-sink",
"infuxdb.password": "password",
"influxdb.username": "user",
"measurement.name.format": "${topic}",
"key.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter",
"value.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter",
"value.converter.schemas.enable": "true"
}' \
But I get this error in Kafka Connect logs,
ERROR
WorkerSinkTask{id=influx_sink_json_job-0} Task threw an uncaught and
unrecoverable exception. Task is being killed and will not recover
until manually restarted. Error: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to
java.util.Map (org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask)
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to
java.util.Map at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.extractPointTags(InfluxDBWriter.java:288)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.getPointTags(InfluxDBWriter.java:266)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.getKey(InfluxDBWriter.java:329)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.getBatch(InfluxDBWriter.java:149)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.write(InfluxDBWriter.java:126)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.InfluxDBSinkTask.put(InfluxDBSinkTask.java:40)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.deliverMessages(WorkerSinkTask.java:546)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.poll(WorkerSinkTask.java:326)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.iteration(WorkerSinkTask.java:228)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.execute(WorkerSinkTask.java:196)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.doRun(WorkerTask.java:184)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.run(WorkerTask.java:234)
at
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [2020-09-25 20:46:53,519]
ERROR WorkerSinkTask{id=influx_sink_json_job-0} Task threw an uncaught
and unrecoverable exception
(org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask)
org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: Exiting
WorkerSinkTask due to unrecoverable exception. at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.deliverMessages(WorkerSinkTask.java:568)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.poll(WorkerSinkTask.java:326)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.iteration(WorkerSinkTask.java:228)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.execute(WorkerSinkTask.java:196)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.doRun(WorkerTask.java:184)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.run(WorkerTask.java:234)
at
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by:
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to
java.util.Map at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.extractPointTags(InfluxDBWriter.java:288)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.getPointTags(InfluxDBWriter.java:266)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.getKey(InfluxDBWriter.java:329)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.getBatch(InfluxDBWriter.java:149)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.writer.InfluxDBWriter.write(InfluxDBWriter.java:126)
at
io.confluent.influxdb.sink.InfluxDBSinkTask.put(InfluxDBSinkTask.java:40)
at
org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.deliverMessages(WorkerSinkTask.java:546)
Anyone has any ideas?
I used the similar config to sink the same topic in MongoDB and it works perfectly.
Should I use any other influxdb sink connector or fall onto using avro serialization or this is unrelated?