not able to import spark mllib in IntelliJ - scala

Question

I am not able to import spark mllib libraries in Intellij for Spark scala project. I am getting a resolution exception.
Below is my sbt.build
name := "ML_Spark"
version := "0.1"
scalaVersion := "2.11.12"
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "2.2.1"
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % "2.2.1"
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-mllib" % "2.2.1" % "runtime"

Answer 1

I tried to copy/paste the same build.sbt file you provided and i got the following error :
[error] [/Users/pc/testsbt/build.sbt]:3: ';' expected but string literal found.
Actually, the build.sbt is invalid :
intellij error
Having the version and the Scala version in different lines solved the problem for me :
name := "ML_Spark"
version := "0.1"
scalaVersion := "2.11.12"
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "2.2.1"
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % "2.2.1"
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-mllib" % "2.2.1" % "runtime"
I am not sure that this is the problem you're facing (can you please share the exception you had ?), it might be a problem with the repositories you specified under the .sbt folder in your home directory.

Answer 2

I have met the same problem before. To solve it, I just used the compiled version of mllib instead of the runtime one. Here is my conf:
name := "SparkDemo"
version := "0.1"
scalaVersion := "2.11.12"
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-core
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "2.3.0"
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-mllib
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-mllib" % "2.3.0"

Answer 3

I had a similar issue, but I found a workaround. Namely, you have to add the spark-mllib jar file to your project manually. Indeed, despite my build.sbt file was
name := "example_project"
version := "0.1"
scalaVersion := "2.12.10"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "3.0.0",
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % "3.0.0",
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-mllib" % "3.0.0" % "runtime"
)
I wasn't able to import the spark library with
import org.apache.spark.sql._
import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
import org.apache.spark.ml._
The solution that worked for me was to add the jar file manually. Specifically,
Download the jar file of the ml library you need (e.g. for spark 3 use https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-mllib_2.12/3.0.0 ).
Follow this link to add the jar file to your intelliJ project: Correct way to add external jars (lib/*.jar) to an IntelliJ IDEA project
Add also the mlib-local jar (https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-mllib-local)
If, for some reason, you compile again the build.sbt you need to re-import the jar file again.