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
if ( value == null || module == null )
			return (StructRefValue) value;
		StructRefValue ref = (StructRefValue) value;
		if ( ref.isResolved( ) )
			return ref;
		
		
		
		
		
		
		StructRefPropertyType refType = (StructRefPropertyType) prop.getType( );
		refType.resolve( module, prop, ref );
		if ( ref.isResolved( ) )
			ref.getTargetStructure( ).addClient( this, prop.getName( ) );
		return ref;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the list of elements that extend this one.
	 * 
	 * @return the list of elements. The list is always non-null.
	 */
	public List getDerived( )
	{
		if ( derived != null )
			return new ArrayList( derived );
		return new ArrayList( );
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the valid status of this element. Child elements need to