Add groovy.io.fileLegacyTruthy system property to opt out of new File/Path truthy semantics

src/main/java/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/ResourceGroovyMethods.java

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import groovy.transform.stc.PickFirstResolver;
 import groovy.transform.stc.SimpleType;
 import groovy.util.CharsetToolkit;
+import org.apache.groovy.util.SystemUtil;
 import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.DefaultTypeTransformation;
 
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
@@ -153,15 +154,30 @@ public void doCall(Object[] args) {
 
     /**
      * Coerce the file to a {@code boolean} value.
+     * <p>
+     * By default this returns whether the file exists. Set the system property
+     * {@code groovy.truth.file.exists.enabled} to {@code false} to restore the
+     * pre-Groovy-5 behavior where any non-{@code null} {@code File} is truthy
+     * regardless of whether the underlying file exists.
      *
      * @param file a {@code File}
      * @return {@code true} if the file exists, {@code false} otherwise
      * @since 5.0.0
      */
     public static boolean asBoolean(final File file) {
+        if (!FILE_EXISTS_ENABLED) return file != null;
         return file.exists();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * When {@code true} (the default), coercing a {@link File} or {@link java.nio.file.Path}
+     * to a {@code boolean} returns whether the underlying file exists. Set the system property
+     * {@code groovy.truth.file.exists.enabled} to {@code false} to restore the pre-Groovy-5
+     * behavior where any non-{@code null} reference is truthy.
+     */
+    public static final boolean FILE_EXISTS_ENABLED = Boolean.parseBoolean(
+            SystemUtil.getSystemPropertySafe("groovy.truth.file.exists.enabled", "true"));
+
     /**
      * Create an object output stream for this file.
      *

subprojects/groovy-nio/src/main/java/org/apache/groovy/nio/extensions/NioExtensions.java

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.FormatHelper;
 import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.IOGroovyMethods;
 import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper;
+import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ResourceGroovyMethods;
 import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.DefaultTypeTransformation;
 
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
@@ -147,13 +148,19 @@ public static String getBaseName(Path self) {
 
     /**
      * Coerce the path to a {@code boolean} value.
+     * <p>
+     * By default this returns whether the file at the path exists. Set the
+     * system property {@code groovy.truth.file.exists.enabled} to {@code false}
+     * to restore the pre-Groovy-5 behavior where any non-{@code null} {@code Path}
+     * is truthy regardless of whether the underlying file exists.
      *
      * @param path a {@code Path} object
      * @return {@code true} if the file at the path exists, {@code false} otherwise
      * @see Files#exists(Path, LinkOption...)
      * @since 5.0.0
      */
     public static boolean asBoolean(final Path path) {
+        if (!ResourceGroovyMethods.FILE_EXISTS_ENABLED) return path != null;
         return Files.exists(path);
     }