Converting JSON to Rdd

[#1]

I am getting a json response, and in my sparkSQL data source, i need to read the data and infer schema for the json and convert in to rdd<ROW>. Is there any class to do that in spark?

Thanks

[#2]

Will this work?

https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.6.0/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrame.html#rdd()