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
NameSpace namespace = nameSpaces[nameSpace];
		return namespace.getElement( elementName );
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the exceltion list into this module.
	 * 
	 * @param allExceptions
	 *            exception list to set
	 */
	protected void setAllExceptions( List allExceptions )
	{
		this.allExceptions = allExceptions;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the <code>URL</code> object if the file with
	 * <code>fileName</code> exists. This method takes the following search
	 * steps:
	 * <ul>
	 * <li>Search file taking <code>fileName</code> as absolute file name;
	 * <li>Search file taking <code>fileName</code> as relative file name and
	 * basing "base" property of module;
	 * <li>Search file with the file locator (<code>IResourceLocator</code>)
	 * in session.
	 * </ul>
	 * 
	 * @param fileName
	 *            file name to search
	 * @param fileType
	 *            file type. The value should be one of:
	 *            <ul>