This is obviously very needed. See my comments about ODataResult on how this should be intelligently implemented without using things like ODataResult.
Comments: I've been waiting for the "$inlinecount=allpages" parameter to work, since it, as remarked by others, really is the missing link for making a "paged" listview UI with Web API and OData. After reading about this case and its status, I tested the December 20th 2012 build with great expectations. Unfortunately it still does not work correctly. I no longer get a server error saying that the "$inlinecount" parameter is unsupported, but the response still does not contain information about the total records. Looking forward to the feature is working!!
Comments: I've been waiting for the "$inlinecount=allpages" parameter to work, since it, as remarked by others, really is the missing link for making a "paged" listview UI with Web API and OData. After reading about this case and its status, I tested the December 20th 2012 build with great expectations. Unfortunately it still does not work correctly. I no longer get a server error saying that the "$inlinecount" parameter is unsupported, but the response still does not contain information about the total records. Looking forward to the feature is working!!