"select if(true, null, null)" via JDBC triggers IllegalArgumentException in Thriftserver

select if(true, null, null);

16/08/17 11:05:38 WARN ThriftCLIService: Error getting result set metadata:
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unrecognized type name: null
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionProxy.invoke(HiveSessionProxy.java:83)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionProxy.access$000(HiveSessionProxy.java:36)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionProxy$1.run(HiveSessionProxy.java:63)
       	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
       	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
       	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1491)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionProxy.invoke(HiveSessionProxy.java:59)
       	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy21.getResultSetMetadata(Unknown Source)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.CLIService.getResultSetMetadata(CLIService.java:436)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.ThriftCLIService.GetResultSetMetadata(ThriftCLIService.java:607)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.TCLIService$Processor$GetResultSetMetadata.getResult(TCLIService.java:1533)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.TCLIService$Processor$GetResultSetMetadata.getResult(TCLIService.java:1518)
       	at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
       	at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:39)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.auth.TSetIpAddressProcessor.process(TSetIpAddressProcessor.java:56)
       	at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:285)
       	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
       	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
       	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unrecognized type name: null
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.Type.getType(Type.java:168)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.TypeDescriptor.<init>(TypeDescriptor.java:53)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.ColumnDescriptor.<init>(ColumnDescriptor.java:53)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.TableSchema.<init>(TableSchema.java:52)
       	at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkExecuteStatementOperation.resultSchema$lzycompute(SparkExecuteStatementOperation.scala:66)
       	at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkExecuteStatementOperation.resultSchema(SparkExecuteStatementOperation.scala:58)
       	at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkExecuteStatementOperation.getResultSetSchema(SparkExecuteStatementOperation.scala:147)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.OperationManager.getOperationResultSetSchema(OperationManager.java:209)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionImpl.getResultSetMetadata(HiveSessionImpl.java:673)
       	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor128.invoke(Unknown Source)
       	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
       	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
       	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionProxy.invoke(HiveSessionProxy.java:78)
       	... 18 more