From be7a7bb2e9acc5a149cf88b78398eee023deb488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Webb <pwebb@pivotal.io>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 22:45:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Refine String to File conversion support

Refine the conversion support so that file URLs are support without
reintroducing gh-12163.

Closes gh-16931
---
 .../org/springframework/boot/convert/StringToFileConverter.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/StringToFileConverter.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/StringToFileConverter.java
index 60b6f1b627d..70c486dcbde 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/StringToFileConverter.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/convert/StringToFileConverter.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class StringToFileConverter implements Converter<String, File> {
 			return getFile(resourceLoader.getResource(source));
 		}
 		File file = new File(source);
-		if (file.isAbsolute()) {
+		if (file.exists()) {
 			return file;
 		}
 		Resource resource = resourceLoader.getResource(source);