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
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	public static final int NAME_SPACE_COUNT = 8;
	/**
	 * The session that owns this module.
	 */
	protected DesignSession session;
	/**
	 * The number of the next element ID.
	 */
	protected long elementIDCounter = 1;
	/**
	 * The hash map for the id-to-element lookup.
	 */
	protected HashMap idMap = new HashMap( );
	/**
	 * The undo/redo stack for operations on this module.
	 */
	protected ActivityStack activityStack = new ActivityStack( );
	/**
	 * The save state used for dirty file detection. See
	 * {@link org.eclipse.birt.report.model.activity.ActivityStack}for details.
	 */
	protected int saveState = 0;
	/**
	 * The array of name spaces. The meanings of each name space is defined in
	 * {@link org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.metadata.MetaDataConstants MetaDataConstants}.
	 */
	protected NameSpace nameSpaces[] = new NameSpace[NAME_SPACE_COUNT];
	/**
	 * The array of module name spaces. Each name space has the corresponding