AbstractMethodError creating Kafka stream

I recieved same error. I set my dependencies same version as my spark interpreter is

%spark2.dep
z.reset()
z.addRepo("MavenCentral").url("https://mvnrepository.com/")

z.load("org.apache.spark:spark-streaming-kafka-0-10_2.11:2.3.0")
z.load("org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:2.3.0")

Turns out I was using Spark 2.3 and I should've been using Spark 2.2. Apparently that method was made abstract in the later version so I was getting that error.

I had the same exception, in my case I created the application jar with dependency to spark-streaming-kafka-0-10_2.11 of version 2.1.0, while trying to deploy to Spark 2.3.0 cluster.