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Most of the Connect Schema primitive types have converters that are used for serialization. This KIP proposes using the newly added BooleanSerializer / BooleanDeserializer classes to add support for booleans as well. Just like the other converters for primitives, the schema type returned during deserialization will always be an optional boolean schema (a note will be added to the converter's JavaDoc).

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

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