Allow fetching read name field without fetching other string fields?

[rlorigro]

Hi, for my purposes, I need to parse many alignments, but I don't much care about the cigar, or read sequence, or tags. However, I do need the read names. Is there currently any way to fetch the read name, given just the "AlignmentCore" without fetching the rest of the string fields?

Thanks

[rlorigro]

To clarify, I am working with Nanopore reads, which can have very long sequences, and loading the read name would be negligible in comparison