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/command/PropertyCommand.java
{
		propName = StringUtil.trimString( propName );
		
		ElementPropertyDefn prop = element.getPropertyDefn( propName );
		if ( prop == null )
			throw new PropertyNameException( element, propName );
		setProperty( prop, value );
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the value of a property. If the mask of a property is "lock", throws
	 * one exception.
	 * <p>
	 * If the mask of this property has been set to "lock", no value will be
	 * set. To set the value of a property, the mask value must be "hide" or
	 * "change".
	 * 
	 * @param prop
	 *            definition of the property to set
	 * @param value
	 *            the new property value.
	 * @throws SemanticException
	 *             if the value is invalid or the property mask is "lock".
	 */
	public void setProperty( ElementPropertyDefn prop, Object value )
			throws SemanticException
	{
		if ( IExtendedItemModel.EXTENSION_NAME_PROP.equals( prop.getName( ) ) )
		{
			throw new PropertyValueException(
					element,