After the recent spark project changes to guava shading, I'm seeing issues with the datastax spark cassandra connector (which depends on guava 15.0) and the datastax cql driver (which depends on guava 16.0.1)
Building an assembly for a job (with spark marked as provided) that includes either guava 15.0 or 16.0.1, results in errors like the following: scala> session.close scala> s[14/09/20 04:56:35 ERROR Futures$CombinedFuture: input future failed. java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class org.spark-project.guava.common.base.Absent from class com.google.common.base.Optional at com.google.common.base.Optional.absent(Optional.java:79) at com.google.common.base.Optional.fromNullable(Optional.java:94) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures$CombinedFuture.setOneValue(Futures.java:1608) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures$CombinedFuture.access$400(Futures.java:1470) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures$CombinedFuture$2.run(Futures.java:1548) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors$SameThreadExecutorService.execute(MoreExecutors.java:297) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.ExecutionList.executeListener(ExecutionList.java:156) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.ExecutionList.add(ExecutionList.java:101) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture.addListener(AbstractFuture.java:170) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures$CombinedFuture.init(Futures.java:1545) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures$CombinedFuture.<init>(Futures.java:1491) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures.listFuture(Futures.java:1640) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures.allAsList(Futures.java:983) at com.datastax.driver.core.CloseFuture$Forwarding.<init>(CloseFuture.java:73) at com.datastax.driver.core.HostConnectionPool.closeAsync(HostConnectionPool.java:398) at com.datastax.driver.core.SessionManager.closeAsync(SessionManager.java:157) at com.datastax.driver.core.SessionManager.close(SessionManager.java:172) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.CassandraConnector$.com$datastax$spark$connector$cql$CassandraConnector$$destroySession(CassandraConnector.scala:180) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.CassandraConnector$$anonfun$5.apply(CassandraConnector.scala:151) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.CassandraConnector$$anonfun$5.apply(CassandraConnector.scala:151) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.RefCountedCache.com $datastax$spark$connector$cql$RefCountedCache$$releaseImmediately(RefCountedCache.scala:86) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.RefCountedCache$ReleaseTask.run(RefCountedCache.scala:26) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.RefCountedCache$$anonfun$com$datastax$spark$connector$cql$RefCountedCache$$processPendingReleases$2.apply(RefCountedCache.scala:150) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.RefCountedCache$$anonfun$com$datastax$spark$connector$cql$RefCountedCache$$processPendingReleases$2.apply(RefCountedCache.scala:147) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:772) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) at scala.collection.concurrent.TrieMapIterator.foreach(TrieMap.scala:922) at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72) at scala.collection.concurrent.TrieMap.foreach(TrieMap.scala:632) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter.foreach(TraversableLike.scala:771) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.RefCountedCache.com $datastax$spark$connector$cql$RefCountedCache$$processPendingReleases(RefCountedCache.scala:147) at com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.RefCountedCache$$anon$1.run(RefCountedCache.scala:157) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:351) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)