Error while using Hive context in spark : object hive is not a member of package org.apache.spark.sql

Question

I am trying to construct a Hive Context ,which inherits from SQLContext.

val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext(sc)

I get t

Answer 1

Using sbt:

You have to include spark-hive in your dependencies.

To do so add the following line in your .sbt file:

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-hive" % "1.5.0"