How to get column datatype from glideElement?

[Pradnya6]

In a script include I want to get the column datatype.
var gr = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci_solaris_server');
gr.setLimit(20);
gr.query();
if (gr.next())
{
var ele = gr.getElement('name');
}

from the above code I get the glideElement. Is there any method which will return the datatype (Internal_Type) of the column?

[adiddigi]

Why don't you query sys_dictionary for the table and particular column to get the data type? There may be a method to get the internal type too, I am not too sure.

[Chris_Hann]

SN Wiki - GlideElement#getED

[Pradnya6]

It worked ... values can be retrieved using following functions.
var val = gr.getElement('u_parent').getED();
var Reference = val.getReference();
var ReferenceQual = val.getReferenceQualifier();

[adiddigi]

Thanks Chris!