What if I do not want some variables to be marshalled into XML file?

Question

package jaxb.classes;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Task {
    @XmlElement(name=\"input\")
    private String          


        

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to support this use case:

Option #1 - @XmlTransient

You can use the @XmlTransient annotation to prevent a field/property from being marshalled or unmarshalled.

Option #2 - @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)

You can annotated the class with @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE) so that only annotated fields/properties will be marshalled/unmarshalled.

For More Information

• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2012/04/jaxb-and-unmapped-properties.html