}

  @CanIgnoreReturnValue // to skip a field
  @Override
  public String readUTF() throws IOException {
    return new DataInputStream(in).readUTF();
  }

  /**
   * Reads a {@code short} as specified by {@link DataInputStream#readShort()}, except using
   * little-endian byte order.
   *
   * @return the next two bytes of the input stream, interpreted as a {@code short} in little-endian