diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/fileSourceInterfaces.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/fileSourceInterfaces.scala
index ed24bdd77f8a78b4a4986f1680fa146db8b688dc..4063c6ebce4b5ff98ac4b1bc478e10e83cc902a7 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/fileSourceInterfaces.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/fileSourceInterfaces.scala
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ abstract class OutputWriterFactory extends Serializable {
    * @param context The Hadoop MapReduce task context.
    * @since 1.4.0
    */
-  private[sql] def newInstance(
+  def newInstance(
       path: String,
       bucketId: Option[Int], // TODO: This doesn't belong here...
       dataSchema: StructType,
diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/SimpleTextRelation.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/SimpleTextRelation.scala
index 16996ae036671882553a8a4c5312edc415f33aba..dad4f87ae39717f6ebf4aee1bd7629707303897e 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/SimpleTextRelation.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/SimpleTextRelation.scala
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class SimpleTextSource extends FileFormat with DataSourceRegister {
       job: Job,
       options: Map[String, String],
       dataSchema: StructType): OutputWriterFactory = new OutputWriterFactory {
-    override private[sql] def newInstance(
+    override def newInstance(
         path: String,
         bucketId: Option[Int],
         dataSchema: StructType,