Spark Unable to find JDBC Driver

Question

So I\'ve been using sbt with assembly to package all my dependencies into a single jar for my spark jobs. I\'ve got several jobs where I was using c3p0 to setu

Answer 1

There exists a simple Java trick to solve your problem. You should specify Class.forName() instance. For example:

 val customers: RDD[(Int, String)] = new JdbcRDD(sc, () => {
       Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")
       DriverManager.getConnection(jdbcUrl)
      },
      "SELECT id, name from customer WHERE ? < id and id <= ?" ,
      0, range, partitions, r => (r.getInt(1), r.getString(2)))

Check the docs