How to query and return pagination data

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: 4.12.5
  • Operating System: MacOS 14
  • Database: Postgres
  • Node Version: 18
  • NPM Version: 9.6.4
  • Yarn Version: 1.22.19

Hey, I want to create custom API returns pagination data which look like this:

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When I investigate strapi’s source, I found that we can extends core controller like this:

async find(ctx) {
    let { query } = ctx;
    query.offset = query.offset ?? 0;
    query.limit = query.limit ?? 20;

    const entity = await strapi.entityService.findMany("api::test.test", query);
    const sanitizedEntity = await this.sanitizeOutput(entity, ctx);

    let { data, meta } = this.transformResponse(sanitizedEntity);

    return {
      data,
      meta: {
        total: await strapi.db.query("api::test.test").count(query),
        offset: query.offset,
        limit: query.limit,
      },
    };
  },

But how can I use transformResponse and sanitizeOutput function without createCoreController?