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- data: Add types to objects
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As we will soon see, there will be different logical types of objects that are
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used in different contexts (even though, from the Object Database's point of
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view, they are just all bytes). In order to lower the chance of using an object
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in the wrong context we're going to add a type tag for each object.
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The type is just a string that's going to be prepended to the start of the file,
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followed by a null byte. When reading the file later we'll extract the type and
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verify that it's indeed the expected type.
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The default type is going to be `blob`, since by default an object is a
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collection of bytes with no further semantic meaning.
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We can also pass `expected=None` to `get_object()` if we don't want to verify
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the type. This is useful for the `cat-file` CLI command which is a debug command
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used for printing all objects.
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