apply OneHotEncoder for several categorical columns in SparkMlib

I have several categorical features and would like to transform them all using OneHotEncoder. However, when I tried to apply the StringIndexer, there I get an error:

stringIndexer = StringIndexer(
    inputCol = ['a', 'b','c','d'],
    outputCol = ['a_index', 'b_index','c_index','d_index']
)  

model = stringIndexer.fit(Data)

An error occurred while calling o328.fit.
: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to java.lang.String
    at org.apache.spark.ml.feature.StringIndexer.fit(StringIndexer.scala:79)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:231)
    at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:379)
    at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:259)
    at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:133)
    at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
    at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:207)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Traceback (most recent call last):
Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o328.fit.
: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to java.lang.String
    at org.apache.spark.ml.feature.StringIndexer.fit(StringIndexer.scala:79)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:231)
    at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:379)
    at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:259)
    at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:133)
    at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
    at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:207)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)