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
/**
	 * Removes an item from a structure list.
	 * <ul>
	 * <li>The element must exist in the current effective value for the list.
	 * This means the list must be set on this element or a ancestor element.
	 * </li>
	 * <li>If the property is set on this element, then the element is simply
	 * removed.</li>
	 * <li>If the property is set on an ancestor element, then the inherited
	 * list is first <strong>copied </strong> into this element. Then, the copy
	 * of the target item is removed from the copy of the list.</li>
	 * </ul>
	 * 
	 * @param ref
	 *            reference to the list in which to remove an item.
	 * @param posn
	 *            position of the item to be removed from the list.
	 * @throws PropertyValueException
	 *             if the item to remove is not found.
	 * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException
	 *             if the given posn is out of range
	 *             <code>(index &lt; 0 || index &gt;= list.size())</code>.
	 */
	public void removeItem( MemberRef ref, int posn )
			throws PropertyValueException
	{
		assert ref != null;
		PropertyDefn propDefn = ref.getPropDefn( );
		assert propDefn != null;
		assertExtendedElement( module, element, propDefn );