NoSuchMethodError in general means that your runtime and compile-time
environments are different. I think you need to first make sure you
don't have mismatching versions of Spark.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:00 AM,  <zapletal-mar...@email.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have started implementing a machine learning pipeline using Spark 1.3.0
> and the new pipelining API and DataFrames. I got to a point where I have my
> training data set prepared using a sequence of Transformers, but I am
> struggling to actually train a model and use it for predictions.
>
> I am getting a java.lang.NoSuchMethodException:
> org.apache.spark.ml.regression.LinearRegression.myFeaturesColumnName()
> exception thrown at checkInputColumn method in Params trait when using a
> Predictor (LinearRegression in my case, but that should not matter). This
> looks like a bug - the exception is thrown when executing getParam(colName)
> when the require(actualDataType.equals(datatype), ...) requirement is not
> met so the expected requirement failed exception is not thrown and is hidden
> by the unexpected NoSuchMethodException instead. I can raise a bug if this
> really is an issue and I am not using something incorrectly.
>
> The problem I am facing however is that the Predictor expects features to
> have VectorUDT type as defined in Predictor class (protected def
> featuresDataType: DataType = new VectorUDT). But since this type is
> private[spark] my Transformer can not prepare features with this type which
> then correctly results in the exception above when I use a different type.
>
> Is there a way to define a custom Pipeline that would be able to use the
> existing Predictors without having to bypass the access modifiers or
> reimplement something or is the pipelining API not yet expected to be used
> in this way?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
>

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