diff --git a/flink-java/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/io/TextInputFormatTest.java b/flink-java/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/io/TextInputFormatTest.java
index 4a52eea5d768b..6bff9dbc7e05c 100644
--- a/flink-java/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/io/TextInputFormatTest.java
+++ b/flink-java/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/io/TextInputFormatTest.java
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ public void testNestedFileRead() {
 			}
 			File parentDir = new File("tmp");
 
-			TextInputFormat inputFormat = new TextInputFormat(new Path(parentDir.toURI().toString()));
+			TextInputFormat inputFormat = new TextInputFormat(new Path(parentDir.toURI()));
 			inputFormat.setNestedFileEnumeration(true);
 			inputFormat.setNumLineSamples(10);