How to run WordCountTopology from storm-starter in Intellij

Question

I work with Storm for a while already, but want to get started with development. As suggested, I am using IntelliJ (up to now, I was using Eclipse and did only write topolog

Answer 1

I struggled with a similar issue, not with the sample topology, but with my own using a Python bolt.

Also experienced the "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BasicBolt'" exception - in local mode and when submitting to the cluster.

There are very few resources on this, I found your question and little else discussing this issue.

In case someone else has the same problem: Make sure you include the correct Maven "multilang-python" dependency in your pom file. This will package the correct run time dependencies into the JAR file needed to run your topology.