Destination Kafka: config fields are not converting to correct data types

[marcosmarxm]

Enviroment

• Airbyte version: 0.29.16-alpha
• OS Version / Instance: MacOS
• Deployment: Docker
• Source Connector and version: ˜
• Destination Connector and version: Kafka 0.1.1.
• Severity: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Critical
• Step where error happened: Deploy / Sync job / Setup new connection / Update connector / Upgrade Airbyte

Current Behavior

2 problems:

1. default values are not passed to API request
2. number field are convert to string and break config parsing function.

Expected Behavior

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