[Feature Request]: External transforms should be able to ignore optional params of unknown type.

[robertwb]

What would you like to happen?

Ideally SchemaTransforms should limit themselves to language-independent types in their configs, but if they don't it would be good to at least support ignoring the un-interpretable fields if they're optional.

Issue Priority

Priority: 3 (nice-to-have improvement)

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[tvalentyn]

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