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
* @deprecated
	 */
	public void initializeModule( Map properties ) throws SemanticException
	{
		
		if ( isInitialized )
			return;
		String name = null;
		Object value = null;
		Module root = (Module) getElement( );
		Set propNames = properties.keySet( );
		
		Iterator itre = propNames.iterator( );
		while ( itre.hasNext( ) )
		{
			name = (String) itre.next( );
			value = PropertyValueValidationUtil.validateProperty( this, name,
					properties.get( name ) );
			root.setProperty( name, value );
		}
		isInitialized = true;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the encoding of the design/library file. Currently, BIRT only
	 * support UnicodeUtil.SIGNATURE_UTF_8.
	 * 
	 * @return the encoding of the file
	 */
	public String getFileEncoding( )
	{