Hadoop depends on two different versions of beanutils

Question

Hadoop 2.4.0 depends on two different versions of beanutils, causing the following error with sbt-assembly:

[error] (*:assembly) deduplicate: different file contents found in the following:
[error] .ivy2/cache/commons-beanutils/commons-beanutils/jars/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar:org/apache/commons/beanutils/BasicDynaBean.class
[error] .ivy2/cache/commons-beanutils/commons-beanutils-core/jars/commons-beanutils-core-1.8.0.jar:org/apache/commons/beanutils/BasicDynaBean.class

Both of these dependencies are transitive from Hadoop 2.4.0, as confirmed using How to access Ivy directly, i.e. access dependency reports or execute Ivy commands?

How can I make an sbt-assembly including Hadoop 2.4.0?

UPDATE: As requested, here is the build.sbt dependencies:

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-client" % "2.4.0"

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "1.0.0"  % "provided" exclude("org.apache.hadoop", "hadoop-client")

resolvers += "Akka Repository" at "http://repo.akka.io/releases/"

libraryDependencies += "com.amazonaws" % "aws-java-sdk" % "1.7.8"

libraryDependencies += "commons-io" % "commons-io" % "2.4"

libraryDependencies += "javax.servlet" % "javax.servlet-api" % "3.0.1" % "provided"

libraryDependencies += "com.sksamuel.elastic4s" %% "elastic4s" % "1.1.1.0"

The exclude hadoop is needed because, out of the box, Spark includes Hadoop 1, which conflicts with Hadoop 2.

Answer 1

Try to add merge strategy to build.sbt

Like below

val meta = """META.INF(.)*""".r

mergeStrategy in assembly <<= (mergeStrategy in assembly) { (old) =>
  {
    case PathList("javax", "servlet", xs @ _*) => MergeStrategy.last
    case PathList("javax", "activation", xs @ _*) => MergeStrategy.last
    case PathList("org", "apache", xs @ _*) => MergeStrategy.last
    case PathList("com", "esotericsoftware", xs @ _*) => MergeStrategy.last
    case PathList("plugin.properties") => MergeStrategy.last
    case meta(_) => MergeStrategy.discard
    case x => old(x)
  }
}