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
module.saveState = 0;
		module.systemId = null;
		module.translations = (TranslationTable) translations.clone( );
		module.validationExecutor = new ValidationExecutor( module );
		module.validationListeners = null;
		assert module.getID( ) > NO_ID;
		assert module.getElementByID( module.getID( ) ) == null;
		module.addElementID( module );
		
		for ( int i = 0; i < NAME_SPACE_COUNT; i++ )
		{
			module.nameSpaces[i] = new NameSpace( );
			module.moduleNameSpaces[i] = ModuleNameScopeFactory
					.createElementNameSpace( module, i );
		}
		
		if ( theme != null )
			module.theme = new ElementRefValue( theme.getLibraryNamespace( ),
					theme.getName( ) );
		else
			module.theme = null;
		
		if ( libraries != null )
		{
			for ( int i = 0; i < libraries.size( ); i++ )
			{
				module.libraries = new ArrayList( );
				Library lib = (Library) ( (Library) libraries.get( i ) )
						.doClone( policy );
				lib.setHost( module );