In MongoDB, is there a way to update many documents and get the documents that were modified in a single call?

Question

I'm working with the Mongo Java Driver, but looking through Mongo's documentation, it doesn't look driver specific.

update(filter, update) can update multiple documents but returns a WriteResult which only provides flags/counts.

findOneAndUpdate(filter, update) returns the actual document that was modified, but it can only update one document at a time.

Is there no way to do this in one call? If not, the client would have to call find(filter), then update(filter, update), then find(...) with a new filter matching the IDs obtained in the initial find (since the update can potentially change document values that were in the initial filter).

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

I am unaware of any write commands that return a cursor, which is essentially what you are asking for, nor am I seeing anything relevant in driver source.