Oggbd Replicat- NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.avro.Schema.toString (Doc ID 2819479.1)

The OGG bigdata replicat for kafkaconnect configured was failing with the following error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.avro.Schema.toString(Ljava/util/Collection;Z)Ljava/lang/String;
at io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.avro.AvroSchema.canonicalString(AvroSchema.java:151)
at io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.CachedSchemaRegistryClient.registerAndGetId(CachedSchemaRegistryClient.java:213)
at io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.CachedSchemaRegistryClient.register(CachedSchemaRegistryClient.java:275)
at io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.CachedSchemaRegistryClient.register(CachedSchemaRegistryClient.java:251)
at io.confluent.kafka.serializers.AbstractKafkaAvroSerializer.serializeImpl(AbstractKafkaAvroSerializer.java:103)
at io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter$Serializer.serialize(AvroConverter.java:153)
at io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter.fromConnectData(AvroConverter.java:86)
at oracle.goldengate.handler.kafkaconnect.KafkaConnectProducer.send(KafkaConnectProducer.java:176)
at oracle.goldengate.handler.kafkaconnect.KafkaConnectHandler.processOp(KafkaConnectHandler.java:386)
at oracle.goldengate.handler.kafkaconnect.KafkaConnectHandler.operationAdded(KafkaConnectHandler.java:332)
at oracle.goldengate.datasource.DsEventManager$4.send(DsEventManager.java:453)
at oracle.goldengate.datasource.DsEventManager.distributeEvent(DsEventManager.java:116)
at oracle.goldengate.datasource.DsEventManager.fireOperationAdded(DsEventManager.java:462)
at oracle.goldengate.datasource.AbstractDataSource.fireOperationAdded(AbstractDataSource.java:482)
at oracle.goldengate.datasource.UserExitDataSource.addOperationToTransactionAndFireEvent(UserExitDataSource.java:2350)
at oracle.goldengate.datasource.UserExitDataSource.createOperation(UserExitDataSource.java:1639)
at oracle.goldengate.datasource.UserExitDataSource.createOperation(UserExitDataSource.java:1396)

Source Context :
SourceModule : [gglib.ggdal.adapter.java]
SourceID : [ggdal/Adapter/Java/JavaAdapter.cpp]
SourceMethod : [HandleJavaException]
SourceLine : [260]
ThreadBacktrace : [20] elements
: [/path>/libgglog.so(CMessageContext::AddThreadContext())]
: [/path>/libgglog.so(CMessageFactory::CreateMessage(CSourceContext*, unsigned int, ...))]
: [/path>/libgglog.so(_MSG_String(CSourceContext*, int, char const*, CMessageFactory::MessageDisposition))]
: [/path>/libggjava.so()]
: [/path>/libggjava.so(ggs::gglib::ggdal::CJavaRecordWriter::WriteInByteBuffer(ggs::gglib::ggdal::CDALRecord const&, int&, bool&, ggs::gglib::ggdal::CDALError&))]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::gglib::ggdal::CDALRecordWriter::Write(ggs::gglib::ggdal::CDALRecord const&, int&, bool&, ggs::gglib::ggdal::CDALError&))]
: [/path>/replicat(GenericImpl::Write(ObjectMetadata*, std_rec_hdr_def const*, ggs::gglib::ggdal::CDALRecord&))]
: [/path>/replicat(execute_statement(ggs::gglib::gglcr::CommonLCR const*, char*, ObjectMetadata*, short, short*, short, extr_ptr_def*, int*, char*, unsigned long, void*, sql_stmt_params_t*))]
: [/path>/replicat(perform_sql_statements(ObjectMetadata*, ggs::gglib::gglcr::CommonLCR const*, short, char*, short*, short, extr_ptr_def*, ggs::gglib::ggmetadata::MetadataContext&))]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::er::ReplicatContext::replicate_io(ggs::gglib::gglcr::CommonLCR const*, ggs::gglib::gglcr::CommonLCR*, extr_ptr_def*, bool, int&, RepCsn&, bool*))]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::er::ReplicatContext::processRecord(ggs::gglib::gglcr::CommonLCR const*, ggs::gglib::gglcr::CommonLCR*, extr_ptr_def*&, extr_ptr_def*&, bool&, int&, bool, RepCsn&))]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::er::ReplicatContext::processReplicatLoop())]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::er::ReplicatContext::run())]
: [/path>/replicat()]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::gglib::MultiThreading::MainThread::ExecMain())]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::gglib::MultiThreading::Thread::RunThread(ggs::gglib::MultiThreading::Thread::ThreadArgs*))]
: [/path>/replicat(ggs::gglib::MultiThreading::MainThread::Run(int, char**))]
: [/path>/replicat(main)]
: [/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main)]
: [/path>/replicat()]

2021-11-03 19:37:44 ERROR OGG-15051 Java or JNI exception:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.avro.Schema.toString(Ljava/util/Collection;Z)Ljava/lang/String;.