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
/**
	 * Implements to broadcast an event to all listeners of this design element
	 * on a design tree. Note subclasses should override this method to change
	 * the behavior of broadcast method.
	 * 
	 * Part of: Notification system.
	 * 
	 * @param ev
	 *            the event to send
	 * @param module
	 *            the root node of the design tree.
	 */
	public void broadcast( NotificationEvent ev, Module module )
	{
		
		
		
		if ( listeners != null )
		{
			ArrayList tmpListeners = new ArrayList( listeners );
			Iterator iter = tmpListeners.iterator( );
			while ( iter.hasNext( ) )
			{
				( (Listener) iter.next( ) ).elementChanged(
						getHandle( module ), ev );
			}
		}
		
		if ( derived != null )
		{