How to ignore @BeforeMethod and @AfterMethod from testng results?

Following is a sample test case created using testng framework,

public class MyTest {

    @BeforeMethod
    public void beforeMethod() {
    }

    @Test
    public void test1() {
    }

    @Test
    public void test2() {
    }

    @AfterMethod
    public void afterMethod() {
    }

}

I am getting following testng-results.xml file,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testng-results skipped="0" failed="0" total="2" passed="2">
  <reporter-output>
  </reporter-output>
  <suite name="Surefire suite" duration-ms="15" started-at="2018-01-22T11:17:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T11:17:46Z">
    <groups>
    </groups>
    <test name="Surefire test" duration-ms="15" started-at="2018-01-22T11:17:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T11:17:46Z">
      <class name="com.my.test.MyTest">
        <test-method status="PASS" signature="beforeMethod()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" name="beforeMethod" is-config="true" duration-ms="4" started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
          <reporter-output>
          </reporter-output>
        </test-method> <!-- beforeMethod -->
        <test-method status="PASS" signature="test1()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" name="test1" duration-ms="0" started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
          <reporter-output>
          </reporter-output>
        </test-method> <!-- test1 -->
        <test-method status="PASS" signature="afterMethod()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" name="afterMethod" is-config="true" duration-ms="1" started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
          <reporter-output>
          </reporter-output>
        </test-method> <!-- afterMethod -->
        <test-method status="PASS" signature="test2()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" name="test2" duration-ms="0" started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
          <reporter-output>
          </reporter-output>
        </test-method> <!-- test2 -->
        <test-method status="PASS" signature="beforeMethod()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" name="beforeMethod" is-config="true" duration-ms="0" started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
          <reporter-output>
          </reporter-output>
        </test-method> <!-- beforeMethod -->
        <test-method status="PASS" signature="afterMethod()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" name="afterMethod" is-config="true" duration-ms="0" started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
          <reporter-output>
          </reporter-output>
        </test-method> <!-- afterMethod -->
      </class> <!--com.my.test.MyTest -->
    </test> <!-- Surefire test -->
  </suite> <!-- Surefire suite -->
</testng-results>

Notice that afterMethod and beforeMethod are also considered as test-methods. I want o ignore these methods from testng-result.xml as I am using this XML for further processing.

I have following questions,

Is there anyway to avoid @BeforeMethod and @AfterMethod methods in test result xml file?
Is there anyway to differentiate between before and after methods from test-method XML tag? (i.e. I can strictly name my methods to beforeMethod_Ignore() and afterMethod_Ignore() but it will be kind of hack instead of solution)

I've gone through following links but couldn't find anything yet,

Solution

AFAIK, there is no direct way of excluding configuration methods from the testng-results.xml file.

But all said and done, the current entries in the testng-results.xml still lets you distinguish a configuration method from a test method.

For a configuration method there's an extra attribute named is-config="true".

See below for excerpts from your own xml file

<test-method 
    status="PASS" 
    signature="beforeMethod()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" 
    name="beforeMethod" 
    is-config="true" 
    duration-ms="4" 
    started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" 
    finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
    <reporter-output>
    </reporter-output>
</test-method> <!-- beforeMethod -->

But for a regular @Test method, the attribute is-config=true would not be available.

See below :

<test-method 
    status="PASS" 
    signature="test1()[pri:0, instance:com.my.test.MyTest@3567135c]" 
    name="test1" 
    duration-ms="0" 
    started-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z" 
    finished-at="2018-01-22T16:47:46Z">
    <reporter-output>
    </reporter-output>
</test-method> <!-- test1 -->

Would that not help you with your downstream xml processing ?

If that still doesn't work for you, then the other alternatives would include:

you would build your own version of org.testng.IReporter implementation wherein you construct this xml and then wire it in as a listener.
You create a package called org.testng.reporters wherein you duplicate the contents of the class org.testng.reporters.XMLReporter into this package, alter the method org.testng.reporters.XMLSuiteResultWriter#getTestResultAttributes to add extra attributes to the method if its not a @Test method.