Webservices data source multi-select parameter not working

java.lang.NullPointerException at com.jaspersoft.webservice.data.query.WebServiceQueryExecuter.getInternalQE(WebServiceQueryExecuter.java:249) at com.jaspersoft.webservice.data.query.WebServiceQueryExecuter.close(WebServiceQueryExecuter.java:200) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.closeQueryExecuter(JRFillDataset.java:1206) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.closeDatasource(JRFillDataset.java:1187) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:598) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle$ReportFill.run(BaseFillHandle.java:123) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$SynchronousExecutor.execute(EngineServiceImpl.java:924) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle.startFill(BaseFillHandle.java:169) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$AsynchronousReportFiller.fillReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:880) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl.fillReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:1829) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$ReportFill.runWithDataSource(EngineServiceImpl.java:1169) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$ReportFill.runReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:1051) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$ReportRunnable.run(EngineServiceImpl.java:946) 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) 

 

 

The control is using java.util.List  as its type and the server already handles parsing the format.  The report dies before it sends out the api request.  Anyone have a remedy for this issue?