Why does Spark report “java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI” when working with

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It's the SPARK-15565 issue in Spark 2.0 on Windows with a simple solution (that appears to be part of Spark's codebase to be released as 2.0.1 or 2.1.0). The solution in Spark 2.0.0 is to set spark.sql.warehouse.dir to some properly-referenced directory, say file:///c:/Spark/spark-2.0.0-bin-hadoop2.7/spark-warehouse that uses /// (triple slashes). Start spark-shell with --conf argument as follows: spark-shell --conf spark.sql.warehouse.dir=file:///c:/tmp/spark-warehouse Or create a SparkSession in your Spark application using the new fluent builder pattern as follows: import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession SparkSession spark = SparkSession .builder() .config("spark.sql.warehouse.dir", "file:///c:/tmp/spark-warehouse") .getOrCreate() Or create conf/spark-defaults.conf with the following content: spark.sql.warehouse.dir file:///c:/tmp/spark-warehouse