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
*         template element or its content is a template element; or the
	 *         container is report design and slot is component slot and the
	 *         element to insert is a template element or its content is a
	 *         template element; otherwise true
	 */
	private boolean canContainTemplateElement( Module module, int slotID,
			IElementDefn defn )
	{
		
		
		if ( defn != null
				&& defn.isKindOf( MetaDataDictionary.getInstance( ).getElement(
						ReportDesignConstants.TEMPLATE_ELEMENT ) ) )
		{
			
			
			DesignElement container = this;
			int slot = slotID;
			while ( container != null )
			{
				if ( ( container instanceof Module && slot == Module.COMPONENT_SLOT )
						|| container instanceof Library )
					return false;
				slot = container.getContainerSlot( );
				container = container.getContainer( );
			}
			if ( module instanceof Library )
				return false;
		}
		return true;