Mybatis的Mapper.xml查询结果集到List遇到的问题报错

错误描述：

严重: Servlet.service() for servlet [springMVC] in context with path [] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is org.mybatis.spring.MyBatisSystemException: nested exception is org.apache.ibatis.exceptions.PersistenceException: 
### Error querying database.  Cause: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
### The error may exist in file [E:\IDEAProjects\BiobaseCloud1.0\target\BiobaseCloud1.0\WEB-INF\classes\mybatis\mapper\DeviceMapper.xml]
### The error may involve com.biobase.mapper.DeviceMapper.selectDistinctComID
### The error occurred while handling results
### SQL: SELECT DISTINCT comID     FROM biobase_device
### Cause: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException] with root cause

Mapper.java

List<String> selectDistinctComID();

Mapper.xml

<select id="selectDistinctComID" resultType="java.util.List">
    SELECT DISTINCT comID
    FROM biobase_device
  </select>

问题解决：

<select id="selectDistinctComID" resultType="java.lang.String">
    SELECT DISTINCT comID
    FROM biobase_device
  </select>

返回类型改成String，而不是List

问题原因：

原因我不懂，我猜想是因为Mybatis只关心数据的类型，到不关心承载数据的是什么，如果有多条数据，那他自动转成集合。

有人知道原因的麻烦告知一下。