Delete Documents with mongo connect-sink does not work

Hi everyone,

I am working in a project where I publish data to a kafka topic(in AVRO format), and I want to use a Mongo-Sink Connector in order to UPSERT documents and DELETE a document when I publish a null value to the topic.
The topic will have as a key the values that I want to use in order to find and update a document, but also the values that I can use to find and delete a document, in case I am publishing null value to the topic.
The topic has the following format:

KAFKA_TOPIC -> 
**key**: { "value_1":"xyz", "value_2":100, "value_3":1000 } 
**value**: {
  "value_1": "xyz",
  "value_2": 100,
  "value_3": 1000,
  "value_4": 3000,
  "value_5": true,
}

When I want to delete values, then I send the following in my kafka topic:

KAFKA_TOPIC -> 
**key**: { "value_1":"xyz", "value_2":100, "value_3":1000 }
**value**:  null

UPSERT operation works completely fine, but DELETE it does not work at all.
I am trying to understand what I am doing wrong.

You can see next the configuration I have for my mongo-sink-connector:


    "name": "mongodb-sink-test",
    "config": {
      "connector.class":"com.mongodb.kafka.connect.MongoSinkConnector",
      "tasks.max":1,
      "topics":"test-sink-topic",
      "connection.uri":"mongodb://localhost:27017/retryWrites=true&w=majority",
      "document.id.strategy":"com.mongodb.kafka.connect.sink.processor.id.strategy.PartialKeyStrategy",
      "document.id.strategy.partial.key.projection.list":"vid,firstOccurrence,source",
      "document.id.strategy.partial.key.projection.type":"ALLOWLIST",
      "delete.on.null.values":true,
      "max.batch.size":"100",
      "writemodel.strategy":"com.mongodb.kafka.connect.sink.writemodel.strategy.ReplaceOneBusinessKeyStrategy",
      "database":"database-test",
      "collection":"collection-test",
      "document.id.strategy.overwrite.existing":true,
      "key.converter":"io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter",
      "key.converter.schema.registry.url":"http://schema-registry:8085",
      "key.converter.schemas.enable":true,
      "value.converter":"io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter",
      "value.converter.schemas.enable":true,
      "value.converter.schema.registry.url":"http://schema-registry:8085",
      "errors.log.enable":true,
      "errors.log.include.messages":true,
      "errors.retry.delay.max.ms":"60000",
      "errors.retry.timeout":"0",
      "errors.tolerance":"all"
    }
  }

Any ideas of what I am doing wrong ?

Appreciate your help !