Unable to listen to binlogs for tables with a period in the table names

I am trying to use the MySQL connector to listen to one of the legacy systems' database(MySQL). Unfortunately , some of the tables have a period in their name.

eg tablename is like owner.details and db name = customer .

The resulting property in the connector is "table.whitelist": "customer.owner.details"

Whhen i try to update the source db , the connector is failing with

Error : "Encountered change event for table customer.owner.detailwhose schema isn't known to this connector" .

Is there a workaround for listening to the binlogs for such tables