Hi,

Nice catch, Sean! Learnt this today. They did say you could learn a lot
with Spark! :)

Pozdrawiam,
Jacek Laskowski
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:

> I figured this out. It's another effect of a new behavior in
> 2.12: Eta-expansion of zero-argument method values is deprecated
> Imagine:
>
> def f(): String = "foo"
> def g(fn: () => String) = ???
>
> g(f) works in 2.11 without warning. It generates a warning in 2.12,
> because it wants you to explicitly make a function from the method
> reference: g(() => f). It will maybe be an error in 2.13.
>
> But, this affects implicit resolution. Some of the implicits that power
> SparkContext.sequenceFile() need to change to be vals of type () =>
> WritableConverter[T], not methods that return WritableConverter[T].
>
> I'm working through this and other deprecated items in 2.12 and preparing
> more 2.11-compatible changes that allow these to work cleanly in 2.12.
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:21 AM Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on updating to Scala 2.12, and, have hit a compile error in
>> Scala 2.12 that I'm strugging to design a fix to (that doesn't modify the
>> API significantly). If you "./dev/change-scala-version.sh 2.12" and
>> compile, you'll see errors like...
>>
>> [error] /Users/srowen/Documents/Cloudera/spark/core/src/test/
>> scala/org/apache/spark/FileSuite.scala:100: could not find implicit
>> value for parameter kcf: () => org.apache.spark.
>> WritableConverter[org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable]
>> [error] Error occurred in an application involving default arguments.
>> [error]     val output = sc.sequenceFile[IntWritable, Text](outputDir)
>>
>> Clearly implicit resolution changed a little bit in 2.12 somehow. I
>> actually don't recall seeing this error before, so might be somehow related
>> to 2.12.3, but not sure.
>>
>> As you can see the implicits that have always existed and been imported
>> and should apply here don't seem to be found.
>>
>> If anyone is a Scala expert and could glance at this, you might help save
>> me a lot of puzzling.
>>
>

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