From 5b812400ab734672b8f06e8e883c138c6115a576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Burket <mburket@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:24:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Gracefully provide an error if JSON tailoring doesn't exist

Fixes #2369
---
 utils/autotailor | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils/autotailor b/utils/autotailor
index 9d5b1a17bb..bccd5bbc37 100755
--- a/utils/autotailor
+++ b/utils/autotailor
@@ -529,6 +529,9 @@ class Tailoring:
             f.write(pretty_xml)
 
     def import_json_tailoring(self, json_tailoring):
+        json_tailoring_path = pathlib.Path(json_tailoring).absolute()
+        if not json_tailoring_path.is_file():
+            raise ValueError(f'JSON tailoring file "{json_tailoring}" does not exist or is not a file.')
         with open(json_tailoring, "r") as jf:
             tailoring_dict = json.load(jf)