What does GetByCriteria return when no results are found?

Question

I'm using NHibernate to retrieve a list from the database based on some criteria.

List<MyType> myList = GetByCriteria(...)

Does anyone know whether myList will be null or an empty list of MyType if no results are found that match the criteria?

I've been looking through the NHibernate documentation and searching in google but I can't find anything that tells me one way or another.

Answer 1

The simplest answer would be to test it... but I'd be astonished if it returned null. I'd definitely expect it to return an empty list.