How would I return a list of objects with total records

[ChrisJokinen]

Lets say I have a list of records I can return based on some value. And there are so many records I want to paginate over them. But the front end wants to make a nice navigation of page 1, 2, etc...

If I design a schema like this

type Orders{
  id: ID
  user_id: Int
  date: String
  ...
}

and I have a query like

userOrders(user_id: Int!, limit: Int, offset:: Int): [Orders]

I would like to return a result like

{
  data: {
    userOrders: [
        { id:1,user_id:1,date:"2021-04-01",...},
        { id:2,user_id:1,date:"2021-04-11",...},
        ...
    ]
  },
  total: 124
}

is there a way to do this, or would I need to modify my type to include a "total" field?