Shouldn't connection fields return a non-null value by default?

[doeringp]

My question is about pagination with the annotation-based approach by adding the [UsePaging]-attribute to a field.

I have a simple Query class which has a field Authors that should support pagination.

public class Query
{
    [UsePaging]
    public List<Author> Authors { get; set; } = new()
    {
        new Author("Jon Skeet"),
        new Author("John Doe"),
        new Author("Jane Doe"),
    };
}

The GraphQL schema generated by Hot Chocolate is:

type Query {
  authors(first: Int after: String last: Int before: String): AuthorsConnection
}

Shouldn't authors always return a connection even if there are no items?

I would rather have the type declared as non-null: AuthorsConnection! by default.

Any thougths on this?