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
* Part of: Property value system.
	 * 
	 * @param module
	 *            the module
	 * @param prop
	 *            definition of the property to get
	 * @return The property value, or null if no value is set.
	 */
	public Object getProperty( Module module, ElementPropertyDefn prop )
	{
		Object value = getStrategy( ).getPropertyExceptRomDefault( module,
				this, prop );
		if ( value != null )
			return value;
		return prop.getDefault( );
	}
	/**
	 * Gets the search strategy for this element.
	 * 
	 * @return the search strategy for this element.
	 */
	public PropertySearchStrategy getStrategy( )
	{
		return PropertySearchStrategy.getInstance( );
	}
	/**
	 * Gets selector of the given slot of this element. The selector is kind of
	 * predefined style, and its style property value can be applied on contents
	 * of the given slot of this element depending on whether property can be
	 * inherited.