Bug 120215 BPS 40 - DE changes
1. all report elements' properties will be overidable with an expression. The binding expression will have access to report parameter, and static BIRT report objects only. 2) DE will provide api to get property binding expression for a given property on a report element handle. It's up to the engine to evaluate the property binding expression when the report gets executed. DE API changes -------------------------- a) DesignElementHandle will support the following two methods. - String (expression) GetPropertyBinding ( propertyName ) - void SetPropertyBinding( propertyName , String (expression) ) // Note get and set property methods are wrapper classes which actually use reportDesignHandle methods to retrive and set the property binding. b) rom.def changes Property bindings contains a list of binding expressions. ReportDesign element will be enhanced to support a new property called. <Property canInherit="false" detailType="propertyBinding" displayNameID="Element.Module.propertyBindings" isList="true" name="propertyBindings" type="structure"/> A new datatype - <Structure name="propertybinding"> <Member name="name" since="2.0" type="name"/> <Member name="id" returnType="any" since="2.0" type="string"/> // Use the unique id used to identify an element. <Member name="value" returnType="string" since="2.0" type="expression"/> </Structure>
model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/core/Module.java
idMap.put( idObj, element );
		
		long id = element.getID( );
		if ( this.elementIDCounter <= id )
		{
			this.elementIDCounter = id + 1;
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Drops an element from the id-to-element map. Does nothing if IDs are not
	 * enabled. Should be called only from the
	 * {@link org.eclipse.birt.report.model.command.ContentCommand ContentCommand}.
	 * 
	 * @param element
	 *            The old element to remove.
	 */
	public void dropElementID( DesignElement element )
	{
		if ( idMap == null )
			return;
		assert element.getID( ) > 0;
		Long idObj = new Long( element.getID( ) );
		assert idMap.containsKey( idObj );
		idMap.remove( idObj );
	}
	/**
	 * Looks up an element given an element ID. Returns null if no element
	 * exists with the given ID. Also returns null if IDs are not enabled. Note:
	 * this method will not find an element that has previously been deleted
	 * from the module, even if that element still exists in memory in