Why does Spark report "error: not found: type Properties" when loading a data set?

Question

I am running Spark 2.1.0 on Windows 10, I am following the Spark programming guide to load data using JDBC from MySQL. When I try to load data using the second method in the link, I get the following error.

scala> val connectionProperties = new Properties()
<console>:44: error: not found: type Properties
       val connectionProperties = new Properties()
                                      ^

Answer 1

Use import java.util.Properties.

See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html.