m.ptype = 0;
            m.flags = flag;

            NdrBuffer buf = new NdrBuffer(new byte[1024], 0);
            m.encode(buf);

            // Reset and skip to flags field
            buf.setIndex(3);
            assertEquals(flag, buf.dec_ndr_small());
        }
    }

For example, if you want to read or manipulate the request body before it is processed by your application.

/// danger

This is an "advanced" feature.

If you are just starting with **FastAPI** you might want to skip this section.

///

## Use cases { #use-cases }

Some use cases include:

}

// NewDummyDataGen returns a ReadSeeker over the first `totalLength`
// bytes from the infinite stream consisting of repeated
// concatenations of `alphabets`.
//
// The skipOffset (generally = 0) can be used to skip a given number
// of bytes from the beginning of the infinite stream. This is useful
// to compare such streams of bytes that may be split up, because:
//
// Given the function:
//
//	f := func(r io.Reader) string {

        if (commitId.isBlank() || commitId.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).contains("unknown")) {
            // we can't figure out the commit ID (probably this is a source distribution build), let's skip adding source links
            return;
        }

        extension.getSourceRoots().getFiles()
            .forEach(
                file -> {

        // Validate compression count
        if (compressionCount < 0 || compressionCount > 16) {
            throw new SMBProtocolDecodingException("Invalid compression count: " + compressionCount);
        }

        // Skip padding
        bufferIndex += 2;

        // Read flags
        this.flags = SMBUtil.readInt4(buffer, bufferIndex);
        bufferIndex += 4;

        // Validate remaining buffer size for algorithms

        });

        // When: Create iterator with throwing filter
        NetServerEnumIterator iterator = new NetServerEnumIterator(parent, treeHandle, "*", 0, nameFilter);

        // Then: Iterator should skip the entry (log error and continue)
        assertFalse(iterator.hasNext());

        // Cleanup
        iterator.close();
    }

    @Test

            fos.write("0123456789".getBytes());
        }

        try (TemporaryFileInputStream stream = new TemporaryFileInputStream(tempFile)) {
            long skipped = stream.skip(5);
            assertEquals(5, skipped);
            assertEquals('5', stream.read());
            assertEquals('6', stream.read());
        }
    }

    public void test_markAndReset() throws Exception {

	buf, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(r, maxSpecialFileSize+1))
	if len(buf) > maxSpecialFileSize {
		return nil, ErrFieldTooLong
	}
	return buf, err
}

// discard skips n bytes in r, reporting an error if unable to do so.
func discard(r io.Reader, n int64) error {
	// If possible, Seek to the last byte before the end of the data section.

				// Determine if os.NotExist error is because of
				// baseDir's parent being present, retry it once such
				// that the MkdirAll is retried once for the parent
				// of dirPath.
				// Because it is worth a retry to skip a different
				// baseDir which is slightly higher up the depth.
				nbaseDir := path.Dir(baseDir)
				if baseDir != "" && nbaseDir != "" && nbaseDir != SlashSeparator {
					baseDir = nbaseDir
				}
				continue

	args := Args{}

	if err := s.CheckValidKeys(config.PolicyPluginSubSys, nil); err != nil {
		return args, err
	}

	getCfg := func(cfgParam string) string {
		// As parameters are already validated, we skip checking
		// if the config param was found.
		val, _, _ := s.ResolveConfigParam(config.PolicyPluginSubSys, config.Default, cfgParam, false)
		return val
	}

	pluginURL := getCfg(URL)
	if pluginURL == "" {