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/DesignElement.java
* @return the elided display label.
	 */
	protected String limitStringLength( String displayLabel )
	{
		if ( displayLabel == null )
			return null;
		if ( displayLabel.length( ) > MAX_DISPLAY_LABEL_LEN )
		{
			displayLabel = displayLabel.substring( 0, MAX_DISPLAY_LABEL_LEN );
			int pos = displayLabel.lastIndexOf( " " ); 
			if ( pos != -1 )
			{
				displayLabel = displayLabel.substring( 0, pos );
			}
			return displayLabel + "..."; 
		}
		return displayLabel;
	}
	/**
	 * Generates a clone copy of this element. When a report element is cloned,
	 * the basic principle is just copying the property value into the clone,
	 * the other things, like container references, child list references,
	 * listener references will not be cloned; that is, the clone is isolated
	 * from the design tree until it is added into a target design tree.
	 * 
	 * <p>
	 * When inserting the cloned element into the design tree, user needs to
	 * care about the element name confliction; that is, the client needs to
	 * call the method
	 * <code>{@link ReportDesignHandle#rename( DesignElementHandle )}</code>