AbstractMethodError creating Kafka stream

Question

I\'m trying to open a Kafka (tried versions 0.11.0.2 and 1.0.1) stream using createDirectStream method and getting this AbstractMethodError error:

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Answer 1

Turns out I was using Spark 2.3 and I should've been using Spark 2.2. Apparently that method was made abstract in the later version so I was getting that error.