Feat/bug fixes

[nil-malh]

📝 Description

Resolves #

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🔄 Type of Change

• 🐛 Bug fix — non-breaking change that fixes an issue
• ✨ New feature — non-breaking change that adds functionality
• 💥 Breaking change — fix or feature that changes existing behaviour
• ♻️ Refactoring / technical debt — no functional change
• 📖 Documentation — doc-only changes
• ⬆️ Dependency update — bumped library/plugin version(s)
• 🔧 CI / build — changes to workflows, pom.xml, tooling

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✅ Pre-Merge Checklist

Code Quality

• My code follows the Palantir Java Format style (passes mvn spotless:check)
• I have added or updated Javadoc on public types and methods

Tests

• I have added unit tests that cover the new / changed behaviour
• All existing and new tests pass locally (mvn verify)
• JaCoCo line coverage ≥ 70 % is maintained
• Tests using Testcontainers are isolated and do not leave containers running

Licensing

• Apache 2.0 license header has been added to every new source file (using spotless)

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🧪 How to Test Locally

# 1. Build and run all tests (requires Docker for Testcontainers)
mvn verify

# 2. Check code style
mvn spotless:check

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📸 Screenshots / Logs

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📚 Additional Context

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📋 Unreleased Changelog Preview

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Changelog

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[Unreleased]

♻️ Refactoring

• Enhance plugin loading and shutdown logic

• Enhance timeout handling and improve documentation in KafkaRecordFetcher

• Extract null value message to constant in MatchResult

⬆️ Dependency Updates

• Bump ktestify-parent version from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a NullPointerException was thrown on unset environment variables

• Close URLClassLoader in PluginRegistry to prevent file handle leak

• Add missing schemas directory default to reference.conf

• Harden XML parsers against XXE attacks in XMLUtils

• Enforce error taxonomy and add missing exception constructors

• Correct over-suppression of CHILD_NODELIST_LENGTH in XMLUtils

• Fixed an issue where a SchemaRegistryClient was instantiated at each call instead of being cached

• Improve byte buffer handling in AvroDeserializer

• Include cause in ConsumerException for better error handling

• Handle null values in record matchers and improve logging

• Enhance security in SAXParserFactory and improve documentation

• Improve handling of empty records in AttributeRecordMatcher

• Improve getLine method to handle null content and out-of-bounds indices

• Null pointer exception on empty TimestampVariable when format is null

• Update dependency review workflow path

🔧 Miscellaneous

• Fixed some tests

🧪 Tests

• Add ClasspathTestPlugin for lifecycle call assertions

• Add TombstoneMatcherTest to verify tombstone handling across matchers

• Rename integration tests with *ITTests

• Rename integration tests with *ITTests

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