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
			IDesignElement,
			IPropertySet,
			IDesignElementModel
{
	/**
	 * Constant indicate that the element has no virtual parent.
	 */
	public final static long NO_BASE_ID = -1;
	/**
	 * Constant indicate that the element has no id.
	 */
	public final static long NO_ID = 0;
	/**
	 * The max length the display label for every element. If the length exceeds
	 * this limit, the exceeding part will be shown as "...".
	 */
	private static final int MAX_DISPLAY_LABEL_LEN = 30;
	/**
	 * Elements have an optional name. The name may be required by some element
	 * types. If so, the derived element class should enforce the use of the
	 * name. The name is non-localizable.