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
for ( int i = 0; i < propertyBindings.size( ); i++ )
		{
			PropertyBinding propBinding = (PropertyBinding) propertyBindings
					.get( i );
			BigDecimal id = propBinding.getID( );
			if ( id != null
					&& propName.equalsIgnoreCase( propBinding.getName( ) )
					&& getElementByID( id.longValue( ) ) == element )
				return propBinding;
		}
		return null;
	}
	/**
	 * Gets all the defined property bindings for the given element. Each one in
	 * the list is instance of <code>PropertyBinding</code>.
	 * 
	 * @param element
	 *            the element to find
	 * @return the property binding list defined for the element
	 */
	public List getPropertyBindings( DesignElement element )
	{
		if ( element == null )
			return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
		List propertyBindings = getListProperty( this, PROPERTY_BINDINGS_PROP );
		if ( propertyBindings == null )
			return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
		List result = new ArrayList( );
		for ( int i = 0; i < propertyBindings.size( ); i++ )
		{