Reading Avro into spark using spark-avro

I'm not being able to read spark files using the spark-avro library. Here are the steps I took:

Got the jar from: http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.databricks/spark-avro_2.10/0.1
Invoked spark-shell using spark-shell --jars avro/spark-avro_2.10-0.1.jar

Executed commands as given in the git readme:

import com.databricks.spark.avro._
import org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext
val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)
val episodes = sqlContext.avroFile("episodes.avro")

The action sqlContext.avroFile("episodes.avro") fails with the following error:

scala> val episodes = sqlContext.avroFile("episodes.avro")
java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: class com.databricks.spark.avro.AvroRelation has interface org.apache.spark.sql.sources.TableScan as super class
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)

Solution

My bad. The readme clearly says:

Versions

Spark changed how it reads / writes data in 1.4, so please use the correct version of this dedicated for your spark version

1.3 -> 1.0.0

1.4+ -> 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT

I used spark:1.3.1 and spark-avro: 1.1.0. When I used spark-avro: 1.0.0, it worked.