Spark Parallelize? (Could not find creator property with name 'id')

Question

What causes this Serialization error in Apache Spark 1.4.0 when calling:

sc.parallelize(strList, 4)

This exception is thrown:

Answer 1

I had the same problem with a project built with Gradle and I excluded the transitive dependencies from the project that was creating the problem:

dependencies
{
    compile('dependency.causing:problem:version')
    {
        exclude module: 'jackson-databind'
    }

....

}

That worked perfectly for me.