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Asked: 2026-05-31T00:43:45+00:00

I try to write an xml object via AIR with FileStream.writeObject I’m doing like

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I try to write an xml object via AIR with FileStream.writeObject

I’m doing like this:

var _file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("test.xml");
var _xml:XML = new XML("<data><name>Testname</name><email>test@test.de</email><time>1331290186848</time></data>");

stream = new FileStream()
stream.open(_file, FileMode.WRITE);
stream.writeObject(xml);
stream.close();

unfortunately, this is the result

Å<data>
   <name>Testname</name>
   <email>test@test.de</email>
   <time>1331290186848</time>
</data>

since i don’t have any influence on the process, how can i prevent AIR to write those strange chars?

thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should write your XML to the file as a String. Right now you’re writing it as an XML object, which looks a lot like a String, but has some additional information. I think that strange character at the start represents the length of the String.

    Use writeUTFBytes() instead of writeObject().

    So replace 

    stream.writeObject(xml);

    with

    stream.writeUTFBytes(xml.toXMLString());

    writeUTF() won’t do the trick either: if you read the docs, you’ll see that it writes the length of the String as the first character too.

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