OGG - Class not found: “com.company.kafka.CustomProducerRecord”

In the documentation for the current release of Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data (12.2.0.1.1.011) there’s a helpful sample configuration, which isn’t so helpful …

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gg.handler.kafkahandler.ProducerRecordClass = com.company.kafka.CustomProducerRecord
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This value for gg.handler.kafkahandler.ProducerRecordClass will cause a failure when you start the replicat:

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Class not found: "com.company.kafka.CustomProducerRecord"
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If you comment this configuration item out, it’ll use the default (oracle.goldengate.handler.kafka.DefaultProducerRecord) and work swimingly!

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