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/Module.java
* 
	 * @return a list of user-defined message keys.
	 */
	public List getMessageKeys( )
	{
		Set keys = new LinkedHashSet( );
		String[] transKeys = translations.getResourceKeys( );
		if ( transKeys != null )
		{
			for ( int i = 0; i < transKeys.length; i++ )
				keys.add( transKeys[i] );
		}
		
		
		String baseName = getStringProperty( this, INCLUDE_RESOURCE_PROP );
		if ( baseName == null )
			return new ArrayList( keys );
		keys.addAll( BundleHelper.getHelper( this, baseName ).getMessageKeys(
				ThreadResources.getLocale( ) ) );
		return new ArrayList( keys );
	}
	/**
	 * Checks if the file with <code>fileName</code> exists. The search steps
	 * are described in {@link #findResource(String, int)}.
	 * 
	 * @param fileName
	 *            the file name to check
	 * @param fileType
	 *            the file type
	 * @return true if the file exists, false otherwise.