NPE in codegen OutputFileMixin

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C:\picocli-master>C:\pkg\graalvm-ce-19.0.0\bin\java -cp build\libs\picocli-4.0.0-alpha-3-SNAPSHOT.jar;picocli-codegen\build\libs\picocli-codegen-4.0.0-alpha-3-SNAPSHOT.jar picocli.codegen.aot.graalvm.ReflectionConfigGenerator picocli.AutoComplete$App --output reflect-config.json

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at picocli.codegen.aot.graalvm.OutputFileMixin.writeToFile(OutputFileMixin.java:28)
        at picocli.codegen.aot.graalvm.OutputFileMixin.write(OutputFileMixin.java:20)
        at picocli.codegen.aot.graalvm.ReflectionConfigGenerator$App.call(ReflectionConfigGenerator.java:80)
        at picocli.codegen.aot.graalvm.ReflectionConfigGenerator$App.call(ReflectionConfigGenerator.java:59)
        at picocli.CommandLine.executeUserObject(CommandLine.java:1662)
        at picocli.CommandLine.access$900(CommandLine.java:143)
        at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2020)
        at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:1987)
        at picocli.CommandLine$AbstractParseResultHandler.execute(CommandLine.java:1854)
        at picocli.CommandLine.execute(CommandLine.java:1783)
        at picocli.codegen.aot.graalvm.ReflectionConfigGenerator.main(ReflectionConfigGenerator.java:90)

Workaround:

--output ./reflect-config.json

Fix:

Index: picocli-codegen/src/main/java/picocli/codegen/aot/graalvm/OutputFileMixin.java
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
--- picocli-codegen/src/main/java/picocli/codegen/aot/graalvm/OutputFileMixin.java	(date 1557467944357)
+++ picocli-codegen/src/main/java/picocli/codegen/aot/graalvm/OutputFileMixin.java	(date 1557467944357)
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
     private void writeToFile(String result) throws IOException {
         FileWriter writer = null;
         try {
-            if (!outputFile.getParentFile().mkdirs()) {
+            File parent = outputFile.getAbsoluteFile().getParentFile();
+            if (parent != null && !parent.exists() && !parent.mkdirs()) {
                 System.err.println("Unable to mkdirs for " + outputFile.getAbsolutePath());
             }
             writer = new FileWriter(outputFile);