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/api/util/PropertyValueValidationUtil.java
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package org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.util;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.DesignElementHandle;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.activity.SemanticException;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.command.PropertyNameException;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.core.IStructure;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.metadata.IPropertyType;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.metadata.IStructureDefn;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.metadata.PropertyValueException;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.Structure;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.metadata.ElementPropertyDefn;
import org.eclipse.birt.report.model.metadata.PropertyDefn;
/**
 * Utility class to validate the property value.
 * 
 */
public class PropertyValueValidationUtil