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
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	public final List validateWithContents( Module module )
	{
		ElementDefn elementDefn = (ElementDefn) getDefn( );
		List validatorList = ValidationExecutor.getValidationNodes( this,
				elementDefn.getTriggerDefnSet( ), true );
		ValidationExecutor executor = module.getValidationExecutor( );
		errors = executor.perform( this, validatorList );
		List list = new ArrayList( errors );
		int count = getDefn( ).getSlotCount( );
		for ( int i = 0; i < count; i++ )
		{
			Iterator iter = getSlot( i ).iterator( );
			while ( iter.hasNext( ) )
			{
				list.addAll( ( (DesignElement) iter.next( ) )
						.validateWithContents( module ) );
			}
		}
		return list;
	}
	/**
	 * Validates only this element without its contents, and return error list.
	 * The derived class should override this method to define specific
	 * validation rules.
	 * 
	 * @param module
	 *            the module
	 * @return the list of the errors found in validation, each of which is the
	 *         <code>SemanticException</code> object.