compiles fine but fails to execute for a custom avro schema

[venbigdata]

First of all, thank you for the tutorial. it really help as a good start. The example worked successfully on my cluster for the "User.java", example class. It worked like a charge. I only modified to include my usecase. replaced the User with my avro class name. I'm getting the following error.

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 0.0:4 failed 4 times, most recent failure: Exception failure in TID 17 on host vllxbd621node07.scif.com: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData$Record cannot be cast to com.cloudera.sparkavro.User
com.cloudera.sparkavro.SparkSpecificAvroReader$$anonfun$1.apply(SparkSpecificAvroReader.scala:43)
com.cloudera.sparkavro.SparkSpecificAvroReader$$anonfun$1.apply(SparkSpecificAvroReader.scala:43)
scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.next(Iterator.scala:328)
scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.next(Iterator.scala:328)
scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727)
scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157)
scala.collection.generic.Growable$class.$plus$plus$eq(Growable.scala:48)
scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.$plus$plus$eq(ArrayBuffer.scala:103)
scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.$plus$plus$eq(ArrayBuffer.scala:47)
scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.to(TraversableOnce.scala:273)
scala.collection.AbstractIterator.to(Iterator.scala:1157)
scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.toBuffer(TraversableOnce.scala:265)
scala.collection.AbstractIterator.toBuffer(Iterator.scala:1157)
scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.toArray(TraversableOnce.scala:252)
scala.collection.AbstractIterator.toArray(Iterator.scala:1157)
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$15.apply(RDD.scala:717)
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$15.apply(RDD.scala:717)
org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$runJob$4.apply(SparkContext.scala:1080)
org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$runJob$4.apply(SparkContext.scala:1080)
org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:111)
org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:51)
org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:187)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Driver stacktrace:
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$failJobAndIndependentStages(DAGScheduler.scala:1033)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1017)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1015)
at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59)
at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:47)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1015)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:633)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:633)
at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:236)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.handleTaskSetFailed(DAGScheduler.scala:633)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessActor$$anonfun$receive$2.applyOrElse(DAGScheduler.scala:1207)
at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:498)
at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:456)
at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:237)
at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:219)
at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:386)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979)
at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107)

We use CDH5.1.3 and I used the following dependencies in the POM.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
  <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
  <version>2.10.4</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
  <artifactId>spark-core_2.10</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-cdh5.1.3</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Could you advise. Is anyone getting the same issue