Project: Birt
Bug 149251 Inconsistent Handling of a Non-inheritable ROM Property
Reported: 2006-06-29 17:52:28 | Status: resolved fixed

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.

Files changed in fix:
model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/api/ModuleHandle.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/api/elements/structures/ResultSetColumn.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/api/metadata/PropertyValueException.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/api/util/PropertyValueValidationUtil.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/command/PropertyCommand.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/core/DesignElement.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/core/Module.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/core/PropertySearchStrategy.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/core/ReferencableStructure.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/elements/strategy/CellPropSearchStrategy.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/metadata/ElementDefn.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/metadata/ElementRefPropertyType.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/metadata/ExtensionElementDefn.java model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/plugin/ODAPropertyDefn.java