MINOR: Change the order that Connect calls `config()` and `validate()` to avoid validating if the required ConfigDef is null (#8810)

Author: Randall Hauch <rhauch@gmail.com>
Reviewer: Konstantine Karantasis <konstantine@confluent.io>

connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/AbstractHerder.java

@@ -341,20 +341,20 @@ public abstract class AbstractHerder implements Herder, TaskStatus.Listener, Con
             Set<String> allGroups = new LinkedHashSet<>(enrichedConfigDef.groups());
 
             // do custom connector-specific validation
-            Config config = connector.validate(connectorProps);
-            if (null == config) {
+            ConfigDef configDef = connector.config();
+            if (null == configDef) {
                 throw new BadRequestException(
                         String.format(
-                        "%s.validate() must return a Config that is not null.",
+                                "%s.config() must return a ConfigDef that is not null.",
                                 connector.getClass().getName()
                         )
                 );
             }
-            ConfigDef configDef = connector.config();
-            if (null == configDef) {
+            Config config = connector.validate(connectorProps);
+            if (null == config) {
                 throw new BadRequestException(
                         String.format(
-                        "%s.config() must return a ConfigDef that is not null.",
+                                "%s.validate() must return a Config that is not null.",
                                 connector.getClass().getName()
                         )
                 );