Write messages using Protobuf schema type

[SeaR1der]

Dear AKHQ community,

I am using Protobuf serialization when I send messages to Kafka.
I don't depend on schema-registry.

I have followed the documentation and specified the mappings between my topics and their Protobuf definition files inside akhq.config file.
That way, AKHQ displays the messages contents in a nice JSON readable format.

-> I would expect that when in write new messages using AKHQ UI, the tool is capable of converting the JSON to the Protobuf schema matching the topic name. In a manner symmetrical to the reading of the messages.

At least, if the feature above was not feasible, I would expect that, when I connect AKHQ to a schema registry, AKHQ is capable of producing Protobuf messages.
This is not the case: when I try this I receive an error message saying that PROTOBUF schema type is unknown. It seems to be working for AVRO schema type.

Has anyone else experienced this?