asp.net web api - How to get only Odata.Count without value -

is there anyway wherein can count of data in response payload without value array. using odatav4.0 webapi 2.2. returns values , count when query like: http://odata/people?$count=true

i need "@odata.count":1, "value":[] or without "value".

is way have function job?

set $top 0 , $count true.

for example: http://services.odata.org/v4/northwind/northwind.svc/customers?$count=true&$top=0

returns count no results

{"@odata.context":"http://services.odata.org/v4/northwind/northwind.svc/$metadata#customers","@odata.count":91,"value":[]}

count calculated after applying $filter, without factoring in $top , $skip.

for example: http://services.odata.org/v4/northwind/northwind.svc/customers?$count=true&$top=0&$filter=country%20eq%20%27germany%27

informs there 11 results country 'germany', without returning records in response.