Flatten transform causes this Connector to fail

[KPull]

The HTTP connector I had configured for my Aiven Kafka service started failing after I configured a 'Flatten' transform (org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.Flatten$Value) on the connector.

I kept getting the following exception:

org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: Exiting WorkerSinkTask due to unrecoverable exception.
	at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.deliverMessages(WorkerSinkTask.java:611)
	at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.poll(WorkerSinkTask.java:333)
	at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.iteration(WorkerSinkTask.java:234)
	at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.execute(WorkerSinkTask.java:203)
	at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.doRun(WorkerTask.java:188)
	at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.run(WorkerTask.java:243)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
Caused by: org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.DataException: Record value must be String, Schema Struct or HashMap, but class java.util.LinkedHashMap is given
	at io.aiven.kafka.connect.http.converter.RecordValueConverter.convert(RecordValueConverter.java:44)
	at io.aiven.kafka.connect.http.recordsender.BatchRecordSender.createRequestBody(BatchRecordSender.java:77)
	at io.aiven.kafka.connect.http.recordsender.BatchRecordSender.send(BatchRecordSender.java:60)
	at io.aiven.kafka.connect.http.HttpSinkTask.put(HttpSinkTask.java:97)
	at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.deliverMessages(WorkerSinkTask.java:581)
	... 10 more

I emphasize that this only occurred after applying the "Flatten" transform on the value.

Here is the configuration I was using:

{
    "http.url": "PLACEHOLDER_URL",
    "batching.enabled": "true",
    "name": "clickhouse_player_view_events",
    "http.authorization.type": "static",
    "batch.max.size": "2500",
    "transforms": "transform-1",
    "connector.class": "io.aiven.kafka.connect.http.HttpSinkConnector",
    "http.headers.authorization": "PLACEHOLDER_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER",
    "tasks.max": "2",
    "http.headers.content.type": "application/json",
    "key.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter",
    "errors.log.enable": "true",
    "value.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter",
    "errors.log.include.messages": "true",
    "topics": "player_analytics",
    "request.method": "POST",
    "retry.on.status.codes": "400-500",
    "ssl.enabled": "true",
    "value.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "transforms.transform-1.delimiter": ".",
    "transforms.transform-1.type": "org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.Flatten$Value"
}