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/ModuleHandle.java
{
		return getFilteredStructureList( CONFIG_VARS_PROP,
				ConfigVariable.NAME_MEMBER ).iterator( );
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the iterator over all structures of color palette. Each one is
	 * the instance of <code>CustomColorHandle</code>
	 * 
	 * @return the iterator over all structures of color palette.
	 * @see CustomColorHandle
	 */
	public Iterator customColorsIterator( )
	{
		return getStructureList( COLOR_PALETTE_PROP ).iterator( );
	}
	/**
	 * Drops a config variable.
	 * 
	 * @param name
	 *            config variable name
	 * @throws SemanticException
	 *             if no config variable is found.
	 * @deprecated
	 */
	public void dropConfigVariable( String name ) throws SemanticException
	{
		PropertyHandle propHandle = this.getPropertyHandle( CONFIG_VARS_PROP );
		int posn = findConfigVariablePos( name );
		if ( posn < 0 )
			throw new PropertyValueException( getElement( ), propHandle