Bug 149251 Inconsistent Handling of a Non-inheritable ROM Property
For a ROM property defined to be non-inheritable, an empty string property value should be consistently handled as an empty string, not as null. For example, an oda.dataSource extension defines a data source property with canInherit=false. When a oda-data-source handle get saved in a report design, it correctly includes the tag for such property, even when an empty string value is specified. <oda-data-source extensionID="my.oda.plugin" name="my Data Source" id="24"> ... <property name="ApplicationServer"></property> </oda-data-source> However, later when using the DE API to read its property value, a null is returned. Then when the report design is subsequently saved, the property tag is lost. Expects that an empty string value of a non-inhertiable property should be preserved.
model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/core/DesignElement.java
* @param module
	 *            the module
	 * @param propName
	 *            the name of the property to get
	 * @return the property value as a boolean. Returns false if the property is
	 *         not set, or not defined, or cannot convert to a boolean.
	 */
	public boolean getBooleanProperty( Module module, String propName )
	{
		ElementPropertyDefn prop = getPropertyDefn( propName );
		if ( prop == null )
			return false;
		PropertyType type = MetaDataDictionary.getInstance( ).getPropertyType(
				prop.getTypeCode( ) );
		Object value = getProperty( module, propName );
		return ( (BooleanPropertyType) type ).toBoolean( module, value );
	}
	/**
	 * Gets the value of a property as a list.
	 * 
	 * @param module
	 *            the module
	 * @param propName
	 *            the name of the property to get
	 * @return the value as an <code>ArrayList</code>, or null if the
	 *         property is not set or the value is not a list
	 */
	public List getListProperty( Module module, String propName )
	{
		Object value = getProperty( module, propName );