Valentin Ursu created ZEPPELIN-1524: ---------------------------------------
Summary: User defined functions in Scala cannot be applied Key: ZEPPELIN-1524 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1524 Project: Zeppelin Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.6.0 Reporter: Valentin Ursu Related to stackoverflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39857803/class-not-found-when-applying-udf-in-apache-zeppelin and issue ZEPPELIN-150 Applying an UDF in the scala interpreter generates a class not found exception. The following code works as expected in spark-shell (both 1.6.0 and 2.0.0) and can be used to reproduce the issue in Zeppelin 0.6.0: import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._ val data = sqlContext.read.json(sc.parallelize(Seq("{'location' : 'london'}", "{'location': 'tokyo'}"))) val cities = Seq("london", "paris") val urbf = udf { city: String => if (cities.contains(city)) 1 else 0 } sqlc.udf.register("sentiment", sentiment _) data.select($"location", urbf($"location")).show The error is: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: $iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$$$cd8ca64e19a07f9732e2b3de5fd5fc88$$$$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$anonfun$1 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)