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
{
			displayLabel = getDisplayName( );
		}
		if ( StringUtil.isBlank( displayLabel ) )
		{
			displayLabel = getNameForDisplayLabel( );
		}
		if ( level == USER_LABEL )
		{
			return displayLabel;
		}
		MetaDataDictionary dictionary = MetaDataDictionary.getInstance( );
		IElementDefn elementDefn = dictionary.getElement( getElementName( ) );
		if ( StringUtil.isBlank( displayLabel ) )
		{
			displayLabel = elementDefn.getDisplayName( );
		}
		if ( StringUtil.isBlank( displayLabel ) )
		{
			displayLabel = elementDefn.getName( );
		}
		return displayLabel;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the name of this element for display label.
	 * 
	 * @return the name of this element for display label.
	 */
	protected String getNameForDisplayLabel( )
	{