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
*/
	public IModuleNameSpace getModuleNameSpace( int nameSpace )
	{
		assert nameSpace >= 0 && nameSpace < NAME_SPACE_COUNT;
		return moduleNameSpaces[nameSpace];
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the next element ID and increments the ID. Used to assign an ID
	 * to new elements.
	 * 
	 * @return The ID to assign to the new element.
	 */
	public long getNextID( )
	{
		return elementIDCounter++;
	}
	/**
	 * Adds an element to 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 new element to add.
	 */
	public void addElementID( DesignElement element )
	{
		assert idMap != null;
		assert element.getID( ) > 0;
		Long idObj = new Long( element.getID( ) );
		assert !idMap.containsKey( idObj );