Moxy is marshalling unmapped java properties - jaxb

Question

I was able to use the XML as external meta-data by following the article here. However, Moxy is marshalling the properties that are neither annotated nor specified in the external XML meta-data. Below is the e.g. How to avoid this behavior? I tried using xml-mapping-metadata-complete="true" but it didn't help.
Class with new prefix property added (removed other properties for brevity)
public class Customer
{
private String prefix;
public void setPrefix(String prefix)
{
this.prefix = prefix;
}
public String getPrefix()
{
return prefix;
}
}
meta-data xml
<xml-bindings xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/oxm" package-name="blog.bindingfile">
<xml-schema namespace="http://www.example.com/customer" element-form-default="QUALIFIED" />
<java-types>
<java-type name="Customer">
<xml-root-element />
<xml-type prop-order="firstName lastName address phoneNumbers" />
<java-attributes>
<xml-element java-attribute="firstName" name="first-name" />
<xml-element java-attribute="lastName" name="last-name" />
<xml-element java-attribute="phoneNumbers" name="phone-number" />
</java-attributes>
</java-type>
<java-type name="PhoneNumber">
<java-attributes>
<xml-attribute java-attribute="type" />
<xml-value java-attribute="number" />
</java-attributes>
</java-type>
</java-types>
</xml-bindings>
output
<customer xmlns="http://www.example.com/customer">
<first-name>Jane</first-name>
<last-name>Doe</last-name>
<address>
<street>123 A Street</street>
</address>
<phone-number type="work">555-1111</phone-number>
<phone-number type="cell">555-2222</phone-number>
<prefix>pre</prefix>
</customer>

Answer 1

To omit the prefix property from your marshalled XML, you should declare it as transient in your bindings file:
...
<java-type name="Customer">
<xml-root-element />
<xml-type prop-order="firstName lastName address phoneNumbers" />
<java-attributes>
<xml-element java-attribute="firstName" name="first-name" />
<xml-element java-attribute="lastName" name="last-name" />
<xml-element java-attribute="phoneNumbers" name="phone-number" />
<xml-transient java-attribute="prefix" />
</java-attributes>
</java-type>
...
By default, JAXB will map any public fields, so since there was no explicit "annotation" on the prefix field, it is mapped in the default way.
xml-mapping-metadata-complete="true" means "Ignore any annotations found in the Java class and use this bindings file as the sole source of mapping information -- do not augment any existing annotations."
Hope this helps,
Rick