Metabase Semantic Types

4/8/2010

The OMA DM Type property is called a semantic type in the metabase. This corresponds to the MIME type of the leaf node value.

Note

The MIME type for WAP Provisioning XML is not supported.

Semantic types are managed through OMA DM server using the MIME type. The device client translates the MIME type to the device-acceptable semantic type. If the device receives a MIME type that does not have a corresponding semantic type, it stores the MIME type directly. Likewise, on the return, the device client either translates from semantic type to MIME type, or simply passes a MIME type that has no corresponding semantic type when sent to the server.

The following table shows the mapping between the semantic and MIME types.

Note

The OMA DM server must not use a semantic type directly as a MIME type.

Semantic type	MIME type
email	text/vnd.ms.emailaddress
url	text/vnd.ms.url
Phone-number	text/vnd.ms.phonenumber
alphanumeric-password	text/vnd.ms.password
currency	text/vnd.ms.currency
numeric-password	text/vnd.ms.numericpassword
short-date_time	text/vnd.ms.date
file	text/vnd.ms.filename
text	text/plain
label	text/vnd.ms.label
link	text/vnd.ms.hyperlink
level	text/vnd.ms.progressbar

See Also

Concepts

Metabase and OMA DM