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 false;
	}
	/**
	 * Finds the property binding defined in this module, which has the same
	 * property name with the given property name and has the same element id of
	 * the given element.
	 * 
	 * @param element
	 *            the element to find
	 * @param propName
	 *            the property name to find
	 * @return the matched property binding defined in the module, otherwise
	 *         null
	 */
	public PropertyBinding findPropertyBinding( DesignElement element,
			String propName )
	{
		
		if ( element == null || propName == null )
			return null;
		
		
		if ( element.getPropertyDefn( propName ) == null )
			return null;
		
		
		List propertyBindings = getListProperty( this, PROPERTY_BINDINGS_PROP );
		if ( propertyBindings == null )
			return null;