sbt can not compile Scala project because of java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

Question

I am new to Scala so any help would be really appreciated.

I am using IntelliJ IDEA Version: 2020.1, sbt.version=1.2.8, jdk1.8.0_ 251 and Scala 2.12.8.

When I tried to compile a coursera project i get the following error

 compile
[error] stack trace is suppressed; run 'last coursierResolutions' for the full output
[error] (coursierResolutions) java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: lmcoursier.definitions.ToCoursier$.project(Llmcoursier/definitions/Project;)Lcoursier/core/Project;
[error] Total time: 0 s, completed 23-Apr-2020 23:46:04
[IJ]sbt:bigdata-wikipedia> last coursierResolutions
[error] java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: lmcoursier.definitions.ToCoursier$.project(Llmcoursier/definitions/Project;)Lcoursier/core/Project;
[error]         at coursier.sbtcoursier.ResolutionTasks$.$anonfun$resolutionsTask$3(ResolutionTasks.scala:43)
[error]         at scala.Function1.$anonfun$compose$1(Function1.scala:49)



[error]         at sbt.internal.util.$tilde$greater.$anonfun$$u2219$1(TypeFunctions.scala:62)
[error]         at sbt.std.Transform$$anon$4.work(Transform.scala:67)
[error]         at sbt.Execute.$anonfun$submit$2(Execute.scala:281)
[error]         at sbt.internal.util.ErrorHandling$.wideConvert(ErrorHandling.scala:19)
[error]         at sbt.Execute.work(Execute.scala:290)
[error]         at sbt.Execute.$anonfun$submit$1(Execute.scala:281)
[error]         at sbt.ConcurrentRestrictions$$anon$4.$anonfun$submitValid$1(ConcurrentRestrictions.scala:178)
[error]         at sbt.CompletionService$$anon$2.call(CompletionService.scala:37)
[error]         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
[error]         at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
[error]         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
[error]         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
[error]         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
[error]         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

This is the sbt coursier plugin in plugins.sbt

addSbtPlugin("io.get-coursier" % "sbt-coursier" % "2.0.0-RC3-5")
addSbtPlugin("ch.epfl.scala" % "sbt-scalafix" % "0.9.7")

Answer 1

Removing the coursier plugin and upgrading to sbt 1.3.13 worked for me.

build.properties

sbt.version=1.3.13

plugins.sbt

//addSbtPlugin("io.get-coursier" % "sbt-coursier" % "2.0.0-RC3-5")
addSbtPlugin("ch.epfl.scala" % "sbt-scalafix" % "0.9.7")

build.sbt

course := "bigdata"
assignment := "wikipedia"

build.sbt

scalaVersion := "2.12.11"
scalacOptions ++= Seq("-language:implicitConversions", "-deprecation")
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "com.novocode" % "junit-interface" % "0.11" % Test,
  ("org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "2.4.3"),
  ("org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % "2.4.3")
)
dependencyOverrides ++= Seq(
  ("com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-databind" % "2.6.7")
)

testOptions in Test += Tests.Argument(TestFrameworks.JUnit, "-a", "-v", "-s")

Credit to @JOHN for this answer.

Answer 2

I used the sbt binary in terminal directly with version 1.2.8 and it saved me(the sbt version of sbt shell in IDEA was 1.3.8).