Hi! We don't have unused fields, but there is no problem to add your own prefix: FileStream newFileNamed: 'demoMetadata.fuel' do: [:aStream | aStream binary. aStream nextStringPut: 'metadata=5'. FLSerializer newDefault serialize: 'stuff' on: aStream ]. FileStream oldFileNamed: 'demoMetadata.fuel' do: [:aStream | aStream binary. metadata := aStream nextString. stuff := (FLMaterializer newDefault materializeFrom: aStream) root ]. Is this ok for you? Best regards, Martin On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Yanni Chiu <yanni@rogers.com> wrote:
I'd like to store some metadata in a Fuel serialized file. I'd like to be able to read that metadata, without de-serializing the file. So, if there were a fixed header at the start of the file, with some "unused" fields, that would be ideal.