ReactiveMongo Pagination with Count

Question

I am trying to implement Pagination with Reactive Mongo.

def get(page: Int, pageSize: Int, filter: JsObject = Json.obj()): Future[Seq[Thing]] = {
    val actualPage = if(page > 1) page else 1
    collection
      .find(filter)
      .options(QueryOpts(skipN = (actualPage - 1) * pageSize, batchSizeN = pageSize))
      .cursor[Thing]()
      .collect[Seq](pageSize, Cursor.FailOnError[Seq[Thing]]())
}

This works and returns me a sequence of documents filtering by the page and pageSize. The problem is I have no idea how many results match the specified query, so I cant tell how many page's exist.

Is there a way I can also get a $count as part of the same query? Or do I need to resort to querying the database a second time with the below?

collection.count(filter)

Ideally I would change my return type to Future[Page[Seq[Thing]]] where Page would contain the total result count. e.g.

case class Page[T](results: Seq[T], count: Int)