apache / apache/pulsar

[Bug] Pulsar Rest API: Getting a 500 concurrent.ExecutionException: SchemaException: Unable to add schema

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Description

### Search before asking

- [x] I searched in the [issues](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues) and found nothing similar.

### Read release policy

- [x] I understand that unsupported versions don't get bug fixes. I will attempt to reproduce the issue on a supported version of Pulsar client and Pulsar broker.

### Version

version 3.0.x

### Minimal reproduce step

Trying to use the broker REST endpoint found in the documentation to produce a message

brokerUrl:{8080/8081}/topics/{persistent/non-persistent}/{my-tenant}/{my-namespace}/{my-topic}

### What did you expect to see?

successful response with mesagePublishResults

### What did you see instead?

"reason": "Fail to publish message:java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.pulsar.broker.service.schema.exceptions.SchemaException: Unable to add schema SchemaData(type=STRING, isDeleted=false, timestamp=1741032909189, user=Rest Producer, data=[], props={__charset=UTF-8}) to topic persistent://tenant/namespace/topic"

### Anything else?

There is no schema attached to the topic, so not sure why it would be giving such an error

### Are you willing to submit a PR?

- [x] I'm willing to submit a PR!

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure on Pulsar 3.0.x using the documented broker REST endpoint and the persistent topic form described in the issue. Compare the REST publish request's schema handling with the reported SchemaException; done means the endpoint returns successful messagePublishResults without the schema error.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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