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### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Change the `NullType.simpleString` to "void" to set "void" as the formal type name of `NullType`
### Why are the changes needed?
This PR is intended to address the type name discussion in PR #28833. Here are the reasons:
1. The type name of NullType is displayed everywhere, e.g. schema string, error message, document. Hence it's not possible to hide it from users, we have to choose a proper name
2. The "void" is widely used as the type name of "NULL", e.g. Hive, pgSQL
3. Changing to "void" can enable the round trip of `toDDL`/`fromDDL` for NullType. (i.e. make `from_json(col, schema.toDDL)`) work
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Yes, the type name of "NULL" is changed from "null" to "void". for example:
```
scala> sql("select null as a, 1 as b").schema.catalogString
res5: String = struct<a:void,b:int>
```
### How was this patch tested?
existing test cases
Closes #33437 from linhongliu-db/SPARK-36224-void-type-name.
Authored-by: Linhong Liu <linhong.liu@databricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenchen Fan <wenchen@databricks.com>
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