Bug 140974 bad assert in ScalarParameterFragment
The following assert appears around line 98 in org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.aggregation.parameter.ScalarParameterFragment assert paramDefaultValueObj instanceof String; If the report does not have a default value for the parameter in the report, then this assert fails even though the code that follows it explicitly handles a null value. Since null is a valid value, the assert should be assert (paramDefaultValueObj == null) || (paramDefaultValueObj instanceof String);
viewer/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer/birt/WEB-INF/classes/org/eclipse/birt/report/utility/ParameterAccessor.java
* @return report locale
	 */
	public static Locale getLocale( HttpServletRequest request )
	{
		return getLocaleFromString( getParameter( request, PARAM_LOCALE ) );
	}
	/**
	 * Get report locale from a given string.
	 * 
	 * @param locale
	 *            locale string
	 * @return report locale
	 */
	public static Locale getLocaleFromString( String locale )
	{
		if ( locale == null || locale.length( ) <= 0 )
		{
			return Locale.getDefault( );
		}
		int index = locale.indexOf( '_' );
		if ( index != -1 )
		{
			String language = locale.substring( 0, index );
			String country = locale.substring( index + 1 );
			return new Locale( language, country );
		}
		return new Locale( locale );
	}
	/**
	 * Get report locale in string.