Error using SpannerIO in apache beam

Question

This question is a follow-up to this one. I am trying to use apache beam to read data from a google spanner table (and then do some data processing). I wrote the following m

Answer 1

This issue is most likely caused by a dependency compatibility problem described here: BEAM-2837. Here's a quick workaround described in one of the comments in the JIRA issue:

    com.google.api.grpc
    grpc-google-common-protos
    0.1.9



    org.apache.beam
    beam-sdks-java-io-google-cloud-platform
    ${beam.version}
    
        
            com.google.api.grpc
            grpc-google-common-protos
        
    

Explicitly define the required com.google.api.grpc dependency and exclude the version from org.apache.beam.