Nested collections of simple objects

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I have a query:

select id, thing
from example
order by id

I need to map this into a list of objects like this:

class Example
{
  public int id;
  public List<Thing> things;
}

"Thing" is custom object with no setters.  There is a registered type handler to create a thing from a column, which works perfectly with individual result mappings.

I am trying to create a mapper that will handle this. 

<resultMap id="exampleMap" type="Example">
 <id property="id" column="id"/>
 <collection property="names" ofType="Thing">
    ....
 </collection>
</resultMap>

My problem is that I have no idea what would go in the body of the collection.  All of the examples revolve around complex types. 

Is this even possible?