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?

source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75952130/laravel-resource-not-showing-total-attribute-inside-meta-when-returned-as-js