Spark 2.0 missing spark implicits

Question

Using Spark 2.0, Im seeing that it is possible to turn a dataframe of row\'s into a dataframe of case classes. When I try to do so, Im greeted with a message stating to impo

Answer 1

Spark used spark identifier for SparkSession. This is what causes the confusion. If you created it with something like,

val ss = SparkSession
  .builder()
  .appName("test")
  .master("local[2]")
  .getOrCreate()

The correct way to import implicits would be,

import ss.implicits._

Let me know if this helps. Cheers.