diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/csv/CsvParser.scala b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/csv/CsvParser.scala
index 370ab3c..8ce0f0b 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/csv/CsvParser.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/csv/CsvParser.scala
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
  */
 package com.databricks.spark.csv
 
-
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, SQLContext}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
@@ -117,12 +116,12 @@ class CsvParser extends Serializable {
     this
   }
 
-  /** Returns a Schema RDD for the given CSV path. */
-  @throws[RuntimeException]
-  def csvFile(sqlContext: SQLContext, path: String): DataFrame = {
-    val relation: CsvRelation = CsvRelation(
-      () => TextFile.withCharset(sqlContext.sparkContext, path, charset),
-      Some(path),
+  /** Returns a csvRelation instance based on the state definition of csv parser. */
+  private[csv] def csvRelation(sqlContext: SQLContext, csvRDD: RDD[String],
+                               path: Option[String]): CsvRelation = {
+      CsvRelation(
+      () => csvRDD,
+      path,
       useHeader,
       delimiter,
       quote,
@@ -137,27 +136,17 @@ class CsvParser extends Serializable {
       inferSchema,
       codec,
       nullValue)(sqlContext)
+  }
+  /** Returns a Schema RDD for the given CSV path. */
+  @throws[RuntimeException]
+  def csvFile(sqlContext: SQLContext, path: String): DataFrame = {
+    val relation: CsvRelation = csvRelation(sqlContext,
+                TextFile.withCharset(sqlContext.sparkContext, path, charset), Some(path))
     sqlContext.baseRelationToDataFrame(relation)
   }
 
   def csvRdd(sqlContext: SQLContext, csvRDD: RDD[String]): DataFrame = {
-    val relation: CsvRelation = CsvRelation(
-      () => csvRDD,
-      None,
-      useHeader,
-      delimiter,
-      quote,
-      escape,
-      comment,
-      parseMode,
-      parserLib,
-      ignoreLeadingWhiteSpace,
-      ignoreTrailingWhiteSpace,
-      treatEmptyValuesAsNulls,
-      schema,
-      inferSchema,
-      codec,
-      nullValue)(sqlContext)
+    val relation: CsvRelation = csvRelation(sqlContext, csvRDD, None)
     sqlContext.baseRelationToDataFrame(relation)
   }
 }