I am tyring to use the flink kafka connector, for this I have specified the kafka connector dependency and created a fat jar since default flink installation does not contain kafka connector jars. I have made sure that flink-streaming-demo-0.1.jar has the kafka.javaapi.consumer.SimpleConsumer.class but still I see the class not found exception.
The code for kafka connector in flink. val env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment val prop:Properties = new Properties() prop.setProperty("zookeeper.connect","somezookeer:2181") prop.setProperty("group.id","some-group") prop.setProperty("bootstrap.servers","somebroker:9092") val stream = env .addSource(new FlinkKafkaConsumer082[String]("location", new SimpleStringSchema, prop)) jar tvf flink-streaming-demo-0.1.jar | grep kafka.javaapi.consumer.SimpleConsumer 5111 Fri Mar 11 14:18:36 UTC 2016 *kafka/javaapi/consumer/SimpleConsumer* .class flink.version = 0.10.2 kafka.verison = 0.8.2 flink.kafka.connection.verion=0.9.1 The command that I use to run the flink program in yarn cluster is below, HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf /usr/share/flink/bin/flink run -c com.dataartisans.flink_demo.examples.DriverEventConsumer -m yarn-cluster -yn 2 /home/balajirajagopalan/flink-streaming-demo-0.1.jar java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: kafka/javaapi/consumer/SimpleConsumer at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumer.getPartitionsForTopic(FlinkKafkaConsumer.java:691) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumer.<init>(FlinkKafkaConsumer.java:281) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumer082.<init>(FlinkKafkaConsumer082.java:49) at com.dataartisans.flink_demo.examples.DriverEventConsumer$.main(DriverEventConsumer.scala:53) at com.dataartisans.flink_demo.examples.DriverEventConsumer.main(DriverEventConsumer.scala) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.callMainMethod(PackagedProgram.java:497) at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.invokeInteractiveModeForExecution(PackagedProgram.java:395) at org.apache.flink.client.program.Client.runBlocking(Client.java:252) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.executeProgramBlocking(CliFrontend.java:676) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.run(CliFrontend.java:326) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.parseParameters(CliFrontend.java:978) at org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.main(CliFrontend.java:1028) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: kafka.javaapi.consumer.SimpleConsumer at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 16 more Any help appreciated. balaji