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/api/elements/structures/ResultSetColumn.java
* {@link org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.elements.DesignChoiceConstants},
	 * and they are:
	 * <ul>
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_ANY
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_INTEGER
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_STRING
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_DATETIME
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_DECIMAL
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_FLOAT
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_STRUCTURE
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_TABLE
	 * </ul>
	 * 
	 * @return the data type of this column.
	 */
	public String getDataType( )
	{
		return (String) getProperty( null, DATA_TYPE_MEMBER );
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the data type of this column. The allowed values are defined in
	 * {@link org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api.elements.DesignChoiceConstants},
	 * and they are:
	 * <ul>
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_ANY
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_INTEGER
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_STRING
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_DATETIME
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_DECIMAL
	 * <li>COLUMN_DATA_TYPE_FLOAT