In spark-avro 0.1, the method AvroContext.avroFile returns a SchemaRDD, which is deprecated in Spark 1.3.0
package com.databricks.spark import org.apache.spark.sql.{SQLContext, SchemaRDD} package object avro { /** * Adds a method, `avroFile`, to SQLContext that allows reading data stored in Avro. */ implicit class AvroContext(sqlContext: SQLContext) { def avroFile(filePath: String) = sqlContext.baseRelationToSchemaRDD(AvroRelation(filePath)(sqlContext)) } } Is there a new version of spark-avro, so that AvroContext.avroFile returns a DataFrame ? In github, spark-avro is still in version 0.1 . databricks/spark-avro | | | | | | | | | | | databricks/spark-avrospark-avro - Integration utilities for using Spark with Apache Avro data | | | | View on github.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | Thanks in advance for your assistance ! Shing