Laravel resource not showing "total" attribute inside "meta" when returned as json response

in my Laravel application I created this resource collection using artisan and leave as default:

class QuestionResourceCollection extends ResourceCollection
{
    public function toArray($request)
    {
        return parent::toArray($request);
    }
}

in my controller I’m using the index function to retrieve data from the database and then paginate it using cursor pagination like so:

public function index()
    {
        return new QuestionResourceCollection(Question::query()
            ->with('user')->cursorPaginate(10));
    

the response returned from this contains the links and meta attribute but the meta object does not include the "total" attribute as shown in the docs here

what am I doing wrong?

>Solution :

You can try per_page and current_page for Cursor Pagination. Instead of total, cursor pagination uses per_page to indicate the number of items per page and current_page to indicate the current page number.
Here is an example.

public function index()
{
    $query = Question::with('user');
    $total = $query->count();
    $perPage = 10;
    $data = new QuestionResourceCollection(
        $query->cursorPaginate($perPage)
    );
    
    return [
        'data' => $data,
        'meta' => [
            'current_page' => $data->currentPage(),
            'per_page' => $perPage,
            'total' => $total,
        ],
    ];
}