Connect with Kafka not able to form

[choonhongyeoh0241]

Whenever we try to connect to kafka, we get this error:
WARNING:root:kafka dataframe could not be created because: An error occurred while calling o36.load.
: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: scala/$less$colon$less
at org.apache.spark.sql.kafka010.KafkaSourceProvider.org$apache$spark$sql$kafka010$KafkaSourceProvider$$validateStreamOptions(KafkaSourceProvider.scala:338)
at org.apache.spark.sql.kafka010.KafkaSourceProvider.sourceSchema(KafkaSourceProvider.scala:71)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource.sourceSchema(DataSource.scala:233)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource.sourceInfo$lzycompute(DataSource.scala:118)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource.sourceInfo(DataSource.scala:118)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamingRelation$.apply(StreamingRelation.scala:35)
at org.apache.spark.sql.streaming.DataStreamReader.loadInternal(DataStreamReader.scala:168)
at org.apache.spark.sql.streaming.DataStreamReader.load(DataStreamReader.scala:144)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:374)
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282)
at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
at py4j.ClientServerConnection.waitForCommands(ClientServerConnection.java:182)
at py4j.ClientServerConnection.run(ClientServerConnection.java:106)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: scala.$less$colon$less
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:387)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
... 20 more

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Data Engineering\Data Engineering\spark_stream.py", line 143, in
selection_df = create_selection_df_from_kafka(spark_df)
File "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Data Engineering\Data Engineering\spark_stream.py", line 129, in create_selection_df_from_kafka
sel = spark_df.selectExpr("CAST(value AS STRING)")
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'selectExpr'

[VuKhoiGVM]

hello, i had fixed that error successfully after 2 days. Here is my step:

1. Check kafka version - it is base on confluentinc/cp-server image of broker, the version of Kafka used is typically bundled with the Confluent Platform version.
2. Find the right version of jars package in the config of Spark Session at Maven, add it to: venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyspark/jars
3. Change config of jar file you just added in:

s_conn = SparkSession.builder
.appName('SparkDataStreaming')
.config('spark.jars.packages', "com.datastax.spark:spark-cassandra-connector_2.12:3.4.0,"
"org.apache.spark:spark-sql-kafka-0-10_2.12:3.4.0")
.config('spark.cassandra.connection.host', 'localhost')
.getOrCreate()
4. Run spark-submit again and keyspace and table will be create sucessfully.

Hope it effective!

[teddythinh]

Hi there, the author has explained the missing packages in this part: https://youtu.be/GqAcTrqKcrY?si=QzgPjlC-RHMULUS0&t=4599

I believe it's still missing the kafka-clients package. You can add the jar file with two missing packages from @VuKhoiGVM's comment.

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/71059689/17316050

Also please double-check the Spark, Cassandra, and Scala versions to download the compatible version or else it won't work.

[ElNino9495]

I get the error even after adding the jar files

[omursnck]

I get the error even after adding the jar files

How did you manage to solve that issue?