Object Data Type in AS3 and Flash Builder 4.5.1 - actionscript-3

Question

I am trying to save a Sprite object as a file on the device I'm working on and it seems to work. the problem I'm having is reading the saved file back and placing it back on stage as a sprite. Below is the code I have so far, could someone tell me what it is I'm doing wrong? I have a suspicion that the saved isn't what I expect it to be since the file sizes have been under a kilobyte.
public function save_album(e:Event):void
{
var outFile:File = File.documentsDirectory; // dest folder is desktop
outFile = outFile.resolvePath("canvas3.bin");
var fs:FileStream = new FileStream();
var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
//trace (File.documentsDirectory.url + "/canvas2.bin");
fs.open(outFile, FileMode.WRITE);
bytes.writeObject(graffitiContainer) //graffitiContainer is a Sprite
bytes.position = 0;
fs.writeBytes(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
fs.close();
}
public function open_album(e:Event):void
{
var inBytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
var inFile:File = File.documentsDirectory;
inFile = inFile.resolvePath("canvas3.bin"); // name of file to read
var inStream:FileStream = new FileStream();
inStream.open(inFile, FileMode.READ);
inStream.readBytes(inBytes, 0, inBytes.length);
inStream.close();
inBytes.position = 0;
ui.removeChild(graffitiContainer);
var obj:Sprite = inBytes.readObject() as Sprite; //returns a null
graffitiContainer = obj;
ui = new UIComponent();
graffitiContainer.x = 0;
graffitiContainer.y = 100;
ui.addChild(graffitiContainer);
}

Answer 1

Not fully sure I understand what you're trying to accomplish; however, this implementation doesn't do what you're thinking - writeObject could only serialize general public properties, and not the graphics member.
You could render it to a Bitmap.
Saw a blog post about this:
http://jacwright.com/201/serializing-display-objects/