diff --git a/forward_engineering/modules/avsc/lib/types.js b/forward_engineering/modules/avsc/lib/types.js
index 754a22f..9edb381 100644
--- a/forward_engineering/modules/avsc/lib/types.js
+++ b/forward_engineering/modules/avsc/lib/types.js
@@ -174,9 +174,9 @@ Type.forSchema = function (schema, opts) {
       // reference.
       return opts.registry[schema] = Type.forSchema({type: schema}, opts);
     }
-    Type.addError(new Error(f('undefined type name: %s', schema)));
+    // Type.addError(new Error(f('undefined type name: %s', schema)));
 
-    return '';
+    return schema;
   }
 
   if (schema.logicalType && opts.logicalTypes && !LOGICAL_TYPE) {