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
*            <li><code>IResourceLocator.IMAGE</code>
	 *            <li><code>IResourceLocator.LIBRARY</code>
	 *            </ul>
	 *            Any invalid value will be treated as
	 *            <code>IResourceLocator.IMAGE</code>.
	 * @return the <code>URL</code> object if the file with
	 *         <code>fileName</code> is found, or null otherwise.
	 */
	public URL findResource( String fileName, int fileType )
	{
		URL url = getSession( ).getResourceLocator( ).findResource(
				(ModuleHandle) getHandle( this ), fileName, fileType );
		return url;
	}
	/**
	 * Loads library with the given library file name. This file name can be
	 * absolute or relative. If the library doesn't exist or fatal error occurs
	 * when opening library, one invalid library will be added into the library
	 * list of this module.
	 * 
	 * @param libraryFileName
	 *            library file name
	 * @param namespace
	 *            library namespace
	 * @return the loaded library
	 * @throws DesignFileException
	 *             if the library file has fatal error.
	 */
	public Library loadLibrary( String libraryFileName, String namespace )
			throws DesignFileException