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
{
		
		if ( getRoot( ) == null )
			return false;
		
		DesignElement containerObj = this;
		int slot = slotID;
		while ( containerObj != null )
		{
			ElementDefn defn = (ElementDefn) containerObj.getDefn( );
			SlotDefn slotInfo = (SlotDefn) defn.getSlot( slot );
			if ( slotInfo != null && !slotInfo.isManagedByNameSpace( ) )
				return false;
			slot = containerObj.getContainerSlot( );
			containerObj = containerObj.getContainer( );
		}
		return true;
	}
	/**
	 * Determines whether this element is managed by namespace. If this element
	 * is a pending node or the container is not managed by the namespace,
	 * return false. Otherwise true.
	 * 
	 * @return true if this element is managed by namespace, otherwise false
	 */
	public boolean isManagedByNameSpace( )
	{
		if ( getContainer( ) == null )
			return false;
		return getContainer( ).isManagedByNameSpace( getContainerSlot( ) );